Bessie Did You Make It chords by Marissa Nadler

Guitar chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

F minorFm AbAb GbGb BbmBbm

🎸 Verse 1:
   F minorFm             AbAb
In 1928 Glen and Bessie met their fate
      GbGb                    BbmBbm
From Twin Falls down the Colorado
      F minorFm                     AbAb
In a handmade canoe, what happened to these two
   GbGb                            BbmBbm
Is up to who you ask but full of sorrow

🎸 Verse 2:
          F minorFm                             AbAb
It took twenty-six full days to find the heart of the maze
GbGb                          BbmBbm
Deep in the canyon they were swallowed
    F minorFm                               AbAb
He dragged his new wife through his treacherous life
     GbGb                           BbmBbm
For cheap thrills he took their tomorrows

🎸 Chorus:
        AbAb               C minorCm              GbGb          DbDb
Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
            AbAb       C minorCm          GbGb              DbDb
Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones?

🎸 Verse 3:
           F minorFm                 AbAb
They were last seen alive by Emery Kolb
    GbGb                  BbmBbm
Who lived alone in the canyon
       F minorFm                              AbAb
He put ‘em up for the night, warmed ‘em up by the stove
            GbGb                      BbmBbm
Saying: At least let me save your companion

🎸 Verse 4:
    F minorFm                 AbAb
The years flew by and Kolb passed on
      GbGb                      BbmBbm
They found some bones in his boathouse
   F minorFm                        AbAb
A augmentedA bullet in the skull from another dawn
GbGb                     BbmBbm
Under the piles of his photos

🎸 Chorus:
        AbAb               C minorCm              GbGb          DbDb
Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
            AbAb       C minorCm          GbGb              DbDb      AbAb
Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones?
GbGb          DbDb
Someone else bones?

🎸 Bridge:
     F minorFm                                AbAb
This boat looks like a coffin and the water is strong
GbGb                         BbmBbm           AbAb  C minorCm
If you go, if you go, you are gone gone gone
GbGb              DbDb
If you go you are gone, gone, gone

🎸 Verse 5:
AbAb                    C minorCm
Fifty years later the tale turned to 🏷Legend
  GbGb                    DbDb
A augmentedA woman claimed to be Bess for a second
AbAb                C minorCm
By the fire, she said without smiling
    GbGb                          DbDb                AbAb C minorCm
I'm Bessie
I killed him
I was simply surviving
    GbGb                          DbDb               Fm7Fm7
I'm Bessie
I killed him
I was simply surviving

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