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