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