Bottomless Lake chords by John Prine

Guitar chords

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#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 majorC C majorC G+G G+G G+G D MajorD D MajorD D MajorD G+G G+G 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 ....

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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...