High Open Hills chords by Liz Stringer

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

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

Intro:
C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF G+G Am(hammer on) FF G+G x3
C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF x1

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

C majorC  G+G x1

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

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

C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF x1

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

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

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

C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF G+G Am(hammer on) FF G+G x1

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

C majorC  G+G x1

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

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

C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF G+G Am(hammer on) FF G+G x3
Ooooo......
C majorC (hammer E MajorE) FF G+G Am(hammer on) FF C majorC x1