Don't Look Down chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC

Verse:
  FF       C majorC  FF C majorC
If I've been too far
  FF       C majorC   FF C majorC
If I've seen too much
        G+G    FF
Working in the shadows
          C majorC   FF C majorC
Of your big Ferris wheel

Verse:
     FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
It's been ten thousand nights
    FF      C majorC     FF C majorC
In the sawdust and mud shows
        G+G   FF
Walking a tightrope
         C majorC   FF C majorC
For a room and a meal

Chorus:
    FF      C majorC  FF C majorC
I said, don't look down
  FF        C majorC    FF C majorC
The ground might be burning
         G+G      FF
We're turning the corner now
          C majorC FF C majorC
We might run into god

Verse:
     FF         C majorC  FF C majorC
From the plains of the buffalo
    FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
To the wild dogs of Mexico
            G+G      FF
And the loves that have laid us low
           C majorC   FF C majorC  FF C majorC
We gotta leave that behind

Verse:
    FF       C majorC    FF C majorC
Oh, the rhymes of the rangers
    FF      C majorC     FF C majorC
And the kindness of strangers
          G+G    FF
I have run all the changes
         C majorC   FF C majorC
Of the Chickasaw waltz

Verse:
    FF      C majorC   FF C majorC
Tasted lipstick and nylon
     FF     C majorC  FF C majorC
Seen the mental asylum
           G+G     FF
Turned my back on the violence
           C majorC   FF C majorC
Before I turned into salt

Chorus:
    FF      C majorC  FF C majorC
I said, don't look down
  FF        C majorC    FF C majorC
The ground might be burning
         G+G      FF
We're turning the corner now
          C majorC FF  C majorC
We might run into god

Verse:
     FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
From the rivers of Idaho, yeah
    FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
To the wild dogs of Mexico
            G+G        FF
And the loves that have laid us all low
           C majorC   FF C majorC
We gotta leave that behind

Bridge:
  Bb majorBb
St Mary, Mother of Patience
   A minorAm
Saint Joseph of the hammer and the nail
   Bb majorBb
Come build me a ladder
Bb majorBb
To the heart of the matter
   FF
High above the moon tonight
    C majorC
On this carnival trail

Instrumental:
Bb majorBb  A minorAm  Bb majorBb  A minorAm  FF G+G C majorC   FF C majorC

Verse:
   FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
She's still in the corner
   FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
Right next to her mother
        G+G    FF
Sir Douglas her brother
        C majorC   FF C majorC
Since she was a child

Verse:
    FF       C majorC   FF C majorC
And the difference in years
  FF       C majorC   FF C majorC
And people's cheap fears
          G+G    FF
And their magazine tears
         C majorC   FF  C majorC
Drove us into the wild

Chorus:
    FF      C majorC  FF C majorC
I said, don't look down
  FF        C majorC    FF C majorC
The ground might be burning
         G+G      FF
We're turning the corner now
          C majorC FF  C majorC
We might run into god

Verse:
     FF         C majorC  FF C majorC
From the plains of the buffalo
    FF      C majorC    FF C majorC
To the wild dogs of Mexico
            G+G      FF
To the loves that have laid us low
           C majorC   FF C majorC
We gotta leave that behind

Chorus:
    FF      C majorC  FF C majorC
I said, don't look down
    FF      C majorC  FF C majorC
I said, don't look down
          G+G  FF
Yeah, don't look down
           C majorC   FF C majorC
We gotta leave that behind

Outro:
FF  C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC