Bessie Did You Make It chords by Marissa Nadler
Guitar chords with lyrics
🎸 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
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🎸 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