Resurrection Bay chords by John Craigie

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A minorAm G+G C majorC G+G A minorAm

Verse 1:
        G+G
I met her up in Helena, at the state mental
A minorAm
hospital.
            G+G
She was put there by a judge, boys, I was put
       A minorAm
there by the same.
            C majorC              A minorAm
Just one look into her green eyes, Catalina she was all mine.
          G+G
She told me of her paradise, called it
       A minorAm
Resurrection Bay.

Verse 2:
           G+G
We both knew we were cured, no matter about
      A minorAm
the judges word.
           G+G
On that first day of summer, we made our
A minorAm
escape.
           C majorC
Running through that June night, with them
       A minorAm
stars as our only light.
               G+G
She said that every star that falls, boy, lands in
       A minorAm
Resurrection Bay.

Verse 3:
     G+G             A minorAm
So me and Catalina, we hitchhiked to Alaska.
         G+G
All through them drunken forests, up that
   A minorAm
Alcan Highway.
          C majorC          A minorAm
Made it down to the Kenai, on the 4th of July.
          G+G
Made love under the exploding skies of
       A minorAm
Resurrection Bay.

Bridge #1:
A minorAm G+G C majorC G+G A minorAm

Verse 4:
          G+G
But Catalina was a strange girl, not long for
   A minorAm
this world.
             G+G
Why they"d put her up in Helena, she would
  A minorAm
not say.
             C majorC
She was in love with that water, like a mother
   A minorAm
to a daughter.
               G+G
I watched her smiling face go under, from the
            A minorAm
shores of Resurrection Bay.

Bridge #2:
A minorAm G+G C majorC G+G A minorAm

Verse 5:
             G+G
Now I ain"t nothing but a stranger moving
          A minorAm
south through your country.
              G+G
I"ve been eating from your orange groves I"ve
              A minorAm
been sleeping through your days.
           C majorC
At night I watch the black sky, see them stars
  A minorAm
go shooting by.
              G+G
I know that every star that falls lands in
       A minorAm
Resurrection Bay.