High Open Hills chords by Liz Stringer

• Capo on 4th

Artist: Liz Stringer
Song: High Open Hills
Capo: 4
Tuning: Standard

Intro:
C (hammer E) F G Am(hammer on) F G x3
C (hammer E) F C (hammer E) F x1

C     Am         F    C
I met him high on a hill when I was sixteen
Am          F      C      G
And my breath it was taken by the cold August wind
C            Am      F      C
I left school that next summer and to Melbourne we fled
Am       F        G     C
As the sky over Mansfield turned orange and red

C  G x1

    C      Am          F      C
I asked him where he came from, he said he wasn’t quite sure
       Am       F        C       G
He said he’d moved ‘round so often, he didn’t keep track no more
      C     Am     F       C
But he said I was the reason that he could stand still
    Am          F      G     C
And he kissed me that first time on the high open hill

Chorus:
C       Am          F      C
See everything changes ‘cept for the sound of the rain
Am          F   C    G
That comes down every time I see him again
   C     Am          F     C
And I wish for a moment that we could once more stand
Am         Gm      F
On those high open hills of our youth
     G     C
Me and my traveling man

C (hammer E) F C (hammer E) F x1

        C    Am         F        C
He went off to Western Australia where the pearl fishing’s good
       Am      F          C  G
He said he’d been once to Broome and there he felt understood
      C   Am      F    C
He said I’m gonna return with a fortune untold
    Am      F        G     C
So just sit tight my darling for our future to unfold

C           Am       F    C
He came back to me to Melbourne for a week or so
    Am    F        C      G
We were lover to lover, I didn’t want him to go
      C      Am     F    C
But with a fire in his belly and a baby in mine
 Am          F       G      C
I prayed when he’d come home it would be the last time

Chorus:
C       Am          F      C
See everything changes ‘cept for the sound of the rain
Am          F   C    G
That comes down every time I see him again
   C     Am          F     C
And I wish for a moment that we could once more stand
Am         Gm      F
On those high open hills of our youth
     G     C
Me and my traveling man

C (hammer E) F G Am(hammer on) F G x1

C          Am   F     C
I got a letter from Darwin later that month
     Am          F          C       G
He said, “I’ve found myself a lover, in fact I’ve found quite a bunch
  C          Am      F     C
The last thing I want to do is to hurt you or our boy
    Am     F     G   C
But you know all I touch I go on to destroy”

C  G x1

C        Am       F       C
He sent us some money, but soon that dried up too
   Am    F     C      G
Just like the hope in my baby’s eyes blue
   C     Am       F   C
He’d sit at the window and wait every night
   Am        F       G     C
And I prayed that that bastard would do what is right

Chorus:
C       Am          F      C
See everything changes ‘cept for the sound of the rain
Am          F   C    G
That comes down every time I see him again
   C     Am          F     C
And I wish for a moment that we could once more stand
Am         Gm      F    C
On those high open hills of our youth
Am         Gm      F    C
On those high open hills of our youth
Am         Gm      F
On those high open hills of our youth
     G     C
Me and my traveling man

C (hammer E) F G Am(hammer on) F G x3
Ooooo......
C (hammer E) F G Am(hammer on) F C x1