Bottomless Lake chords by John Prine

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...