Over The Waterfall chords by Michelle Shocked

Chords with lyrics

Words & Music by: Michelle Shocked
From the Album "Arkansas Traveler"
1992 Mercury


Intro:

C majorC D MajorD G+G
C majorC D MajorD G+G


Verse 1:

  D MajorD
I thought I knew what I was doing
D MajorD
I was wrong
D MajorD
Mistakes I've made and lived to tell
  C majorC         G+G    D MajorD       C majorC  D MajorD  G+G
I tell them in a song

Verse 2:

  D MajorD
I knew a river wide and deep
D MajorD
Her banks were very tall
D MajorD
At one end was a mountain stream
    C majorC           G+G    D MajorD
The other was a waterfall, boys
    C majorC           G+G    D MajorD
The other was a waterfall



Verse 3:

  D MajorD
I asked the old man by the river
D MajorD
He did not recall
D MajorD
The last attempt to ride a barrel
C majorC        G+G    D MajorD       C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
Over the waterfall

Verse 4:

    D MajorD
The ferry boatman, he did tell me
D MajorD
That the chance was very small
D MajorD
None survived who went alive
C majorC        G+G    D MajorD
Over the waterfall, boys
C majorC        G+G    D MajorD
Over the waterfall



Verse 5:

     D MajorD
So I built myself an oaken barrel
D MajorD
And inside I did crawl
D MajorD
I broke the record but I broke my back
      C majorC        G+G    D MajorD     C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
Going over the waterfall



Outro:

         D MajorD
And it's been my luck to live to tell

The only tale I can

It don't hurt you when you fall
C majorC         G+G   D MajorD            C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
Only when you land, boys
C majorC         G+G   D MajorD
Only when you land


C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
C majorC  G+G  D MajorD