bottomless_lake.crd, as transcribed by Phil Scott, P.Scott@latrobe.edu.au BOTTOMLESS LAKE by John Prine >From the album "Aimless Love", Oh Boy Records, 1986 Play with capo on 3rd fret, ie actually in key of A# I'm not certain I've tracked down all of the chords in the verse. I've got a sneaking suspicion that there's at least one variation on an A chord there somewhere, but I can't tell for the life of me what it is. Anyway, the following seems to work for me.
(Guitar Intro: G C C C G G G D D D G G G (twice)) G Here's the story ... D G And a big trip ... I heard all about it in ... D And I read it in ... C G They rented a car at ... C But the car ... G Said ma to pa my ... D G Is gonna fall into the ... (guitar: repeat intro) Well mama turned to daddy .... CHORUS G D We are falling ... G Down to the bottom of ... Smoke 'em ... C G I'm so scared, I ... D G I may never see ... (guitar: repeat intro) There was plenty of food in ... CHORUS (guitar: repeat intro) Papa played the music on .... CHORUS (guitar: repeat intro twice) So if you're ever goin' .... That's right...
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