Bessie Did You Make It Chords

🎸 Intro: Fm Ab Gb Bbm 🎸 Verse 1: Fm Ab In 1928 Glen and Bessie met their fate Gb Bbm From Twin Falls down the Colorado Fm Ab In a handmade canoe, what happened to these two Gb Bbm Is up to who you ask but full of sorrow 🎸 Verse 2: Fm Ab It took twenty-six full days to find the heart of the maze Gb Bbm Deep in the canyon they were swallowed Fm Ab He dragged his new wife through his treacherous life Gb Bbm For cheap thrills he took their tomorrows

🎸 Chorus: Ab Cm Gb Db Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own? Ab Cm Gb Db Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones? 🎸 Verse 3: Fm Ab They were last seen alive by Emery Kolb Gb Bbm Who lived alone in the canyon Fm Ab He put ‘em up for the night, warmed ‘em up by the stove Gb Bbm Saying: At least let me save your companion 🎸 Verse 4: Fm Ab The years flew by and Kolb passed on Gb Bbm They found some bones in his boathouse Fm Ab A bullet in the skull from another dawn Gb Bbm Under the piles of his photos 🎸 Chorus: Ab Cm Gb Db Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own? Ab Cm Gb Db Ab Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones? Gb Db Someone else bones? 🎸 Bridge: Fm Ab This boat looks like a coffin and the water is strong Gb Bbm Ab Cm If you go, if you go, you are gone gone gone Gb Db If you go you are gone, gone, gone 🎸 Verse 5: Ab Cm Fifty years later the tale turned to legend Gb Db A woman claimed to be Bess for a second Ab Cm By the fire, she said without smiling Gb Db Ab Cm I'm Bessie I killed him I was simply surviving Gb Db Fm7 I'm Bessie I killed him I was simply surviving