Bottomless Lake chords by John Prine

Chords with lyrics

bottomless_lake.crd, as transcribed by Phil Scott, [email protected]


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#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 augmentedA 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+G C majorC C C majorC G+G G MajorG G+G D MajorD D D MajorD G+G G MajorG G+G (twice))
G+G
Here's the story ...
   D MajorD         G+G
And a big trip ...

I heard all about it in ...
   D MajorD
And I read it in ...
   C majorC          G+G
They rented a car at ...
              C majorC
But the car ...
   G+G
Said ma to pa my ...
     D MajorD            G+G
Is gonna fall into the ...

(guitar: repeat intro)
Well mama turned to daddy ....


CHORUS
G+G   D MajorD
We are falling ...
            G+G
Down to the bottom of ...

Smoke 'em ...
C majorC          G+G
I'm so scared, I ...
   D MajorD            G+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...