Strong Swimmer chords by Josh Ritter

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Every time C is played it's with this picking pattern:
e|------------------------|
B|------------------------|
G|----0-----0-----0-----0-|
D|------0h2---2h3----2----|
A|--3---------------------|
E|------------------------|

Every other chord is just strummed.


🎸 Verse 1:
C
On the night that you were born
C
Your mama who had many friends
G                         F
Took you down across the reach
                      C
To meet the tide come in

C

C
There were no lilies from my footsteps
C
There were no temple curtains torn
G                         F                 F (hold twice as long)
Still I felt you move inside me
                        C
A strong swimmer to be born

G                 F        C
Da da da da da da da da da da


🎸 Verse 2:
C
The wind was in my hair
C
And your cheeks were flecked with salt
G                   F
Your eyes were two boats for the moon
                                    C
I said, a strong swimmer you'll be called

C

G                 F        C
Da da da da da da da da da da


🎸 Verse 3:
G
Now I cannot believе to see
        F
The leagues that you havе swum
G
Cannot believe you once were me
      F
That you and I were one
G
Time only travels one way
       F
I’m afraid still I'm a fool
G
Cause in my mind I try to wind
     F
The twine back on the spool now

C


🎸 Verse 4:
C
Now I'm standing on the cliffs
C
And the cold sea far below
G                   F
And the birds that float the midway air
                       C
Like driven flakes of snow
C
I cannot go where you are going
C
I can no longer fight those waves
G                   F
Still I’ll watch you 'til you're out of sight
                       C
A strong swimmer all the way

C

G                 F        C
Da da da da da da da da da da
G                 F        C
Da da da da da da da da da da


🎸 Outro:
C
On the night that you were born
C
Your mama who had many friends
G                   F
Took you down across the reach
                       C
To meet the tide come in



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