Matapedia chords by Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Capo 2

Intro C majorC

verse 1
                         FF
Her hair was dyed black and she was bending down

Picking something from off the ground
    C majorC
She was seventeen
               G+G
And he said, ?Oh my god, it?s Kate?
     C majorC            G+G
She said ?No, I?m the daughter of Kate
      FF        C majorC
My name is Martha, who are you?
G+G                   C majorC
Ma never told me, never told me about you?

Interlude
C majorC  FF  G+G  C majorC

verse 2

He put his big middle-aged hands upon her shoulders
    FF
And he looked her in the eyes
            C majorC
Just like a boy of nineteen would do
         G+G
And she was not afraid
         C majorC    G+G
No, she was not afraid

verse 3
C majorC
Once upon a time two kids in love, in a car, were flyin? over mountains
                          FF
Trying to catch a boat that?d take ?em up river to home

          G+G  C majorC  G+G
And they raced the Matapedia
FF
Sixty minutes, sixty miles

Thirty minutes, thirty miles

Twenty minutes, twenty miles

Ten, nine, eight
  C majorC     G+G
And I was not afraid
        C majorC
No, I was not afraid

Interlude
C majorC  FF  G+G  C majorC

verse 4

Well, we made the boat with minutes to spare
       FF
And we crossed on over to the other side
          C majorC
Back home, safe and sound
         G+G
But I could not slow down
         C majorC     G+G
No, I could not slow down
        C majorC
(I could not slow down)

  FF      G+G  C majorC  G+G
And we raced the Matapedia
FF
Sixty minutes, sixty miles

Thirty minutes, thirty miles

Twenty minutes, twenty miles

Ten, nine, eight
  C majorC       G+G
But I could not slow down
         C majorC     G+G
No, I could not slow down
        C majorC
(I could not slow down)
        G+G
And I was not afraid
        C majorC    G+G  C majorC
No, I was not afraid
      G+G
(I was not afraid)
        C majorC
And I was not afraid