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