How Was I To Know chords by Missy Higgins

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

C majorC   AbAb
C majorC   AbAb


🎸 Verse 1:
     C majorC
When the order came to dig the well
   C majorC
To crack the earth to pull the oil
      AbAb
To take the blood out from my mother’s veins
    C majorC
Well I broke the ground to feed the mouth
  C majorC
I did not here the warning sound
  AbAb
I could not put back in what I took out

🎸 Chorus:
        F minorFm
How was I to know
        AbAb
How was I to know
      C majorC
I’d be a stepping stone
    Eb MajorEb
To the end
         AbAb
The end of everything
F minorFm        Eb MajorEb
How was I to know

🎸 Verse 2:
    C majorC
On the day I built a house so high
    C majorC
It’s antenna did scrape the sky
    AbAb
Well everyone applauded in my shadow
     C majorC
So my neighbour built a higher one
    C majorC
Then again his neighbour after him
   AbAb
Till soon racing through the clouds was all that mattered
             Bb majorBb
Up and up the buildings went
C minorCm
Glass and stone and hard cement
      AbAb
Till all the green was left to die below

🎸 Chorus:
        F minorFm
How was I to know
        AbAb
How was I to know
      C minorCm
I’d be a stepping stone
    Eb MajorEb
To the end
         AbAb
The end of everything
            F minorFm
The end of everything
           Eb MajorEb
How was I to know

🎸 Verse 3:
    C majorC
Long ago I caught a pretty fish
C majorC
Blue and silver and delicious
  AbAb
And I knew she’d line my pockets green
    C majorC
So I bought a bigger boat that had
C majorC
A augmentedA net to trail the ocean and
AbAb
I fished until one day that net was empty

🎸 Chorus:
           F minorFm
How was I to know
           AbAb
How was I to know
       C majorC
I’d be a stepping stone
      Eb MajorEb
To the end
         AbAb
The end of everything
F minorFm        Eb MajorEb
How was I to know

🎸 Bridge:
            Bb majorBb
And how are we to now
    C minorCm
Turn these stepping stones around
           Eb MajorEb
Back to everything that matters
        Bb majorBb              AbAb
Can that place even be found or is it lost
F minorFm      AbAb     C minorCm   Eb MajorEb
Forever

🎸 Outro:
             AbAb
The end of everything
             F minorFm
The end of everything
           Eb MajorEb
How was I to know?
           N.C.
How was I to know?