Over The Waterfall chords by Michelle Shocked

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

Intro:

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C D G


Verse 1:

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I thought I knew what I was doing
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I was wrong
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Mistakes I've made and lived to tell
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I tell them in a song



Verse 2:

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I knew a river wide and deep
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Her banks were very tall
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At one end was a mountain stream
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The other was a waterfall, boys
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The other was a waterfall



Verse 3:

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I asked the old man by the river
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He did not recall
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The last attempt to ride a barrel
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Over the waterfall



Verse 4:

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



Verse 5:

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



Outro:

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And it's been my luck to live to tell

The only tale I can

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


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