How Was I To Know chords by Missy Higgins

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

C     Ab
C     Ab



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

🎸 Chorus:
                Fm
How was I to know
                Ab
How was I to know
           C
I’d be a stepping stone
        Eb
To the end
                  Ab
The end of everything
Fm                Eb
How was I to know

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

🎸 Chorus:
                Fm
How was I to know
                Ab
How was I to know
           Cm
I’d be a stepping stone
        Eb
To the end
                  Ab
The end of everything
                        Fm
The end of everything
                     Eb
How was I to know

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

🎸 Chorus:
                     Fm
How was I to know
                     Ab
How was I to know
              C
I’d be a stepping stone
            Eb
To the end
                  Ab
The end of everything
Fm                Eb
How was I to know

🎸 Bridge:
                        Bb
And how are we to now
        Cm
Turn these stepping stones around
                     Eb
Back to everything that matters
               Bb                            Ab
Can that place even be found or is it lost
Fm           Ab         Cm      Eb
Forever

🎸 Outro:
                         Ab
The end of everything
                         Fm
The end of everything
                      Eb
How was I to know?
                      N.C.
How was I to know?