Key: F major
Intro 1
G
C
G
Verse 1
G
Backwater
C
G
We're sailing at the edges of time
Backwater
C
G
We're drifting at the waterline
F
C
Oh we're floating in the coastal waters
F
C
You and me and the porter's daughters
Bm
G
Bm
G
Ooh what to do not a sausage to do
F
C
Dips her hand in the deadly waters
Bm
G
Bm
Ooh what to do in a tiny ca noe
G
Verse 2
Black water
There were six of us but
C
G
now we are five
We're all talking
G
F
C
There was a senator from Ecuador
F
C
Who talked about a meteor
Bm
G
That crashed on a hill in
Bm
G
the south of Peru
F
C
And was found by a conquistador
F
C
Who took it to the emperor
Bm
G
Bm
G
And he passed it on to a Turkish guru
Verse 3
C
G
Was slated for becoming divine
He taught her
He taught her how to split and define
F
C
But if you study the logistics
F
C
And heuristics of the mystics
Bm
G
You will find that their minds
G
F
C
So it's much more realistic
F
C
To abandon such ballistics
Bm
G
Bm
G
C
G
And resign to be trapped on a leaf in
C
G
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
C
G
C
G
a vine
Outro 1
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
C
G
C
G
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
F
C
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
C
G
C
G
F
C
Bm
G
Bm
G
F
C
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