bessie did you make it chords by Marissa Nadler
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In 1928, Glen and
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Bessie met their fate
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From Twin Falls down the Colorado
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Em
In a handmade canoe,
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what happened to these two?
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Is up to who you ask,
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but full of sorrow
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It took twenty- six full days to
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find the heart of the maze
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Deep in the canyon, they were swallowed
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He dragged his new wife
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through his treacherous life
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For cheap thrills he took
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their tomorrows
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Verse 2
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Did you make it?
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Did you make it?
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C
Did you make it on your own?
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Or did you fake it,
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Fake it?
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C
Leave someone else's bones?
Verse 3
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They were last seen alive by Emery Kolb
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Am
Who lived alone in the canyon
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He put 'em up for the night,
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warmed 'em up by the stove
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Sayin', "At least let me save
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your companion"
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The years flew by and Kolb passed on
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They found some bones in his boathouse
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A bullet in the skull from another dawn
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Under the piles of his pho tos
Verse 4
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Did you make it?
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Did you make it?
Dm
C
Did you make it on your own?
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Or did you fake it,
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Fake it?
Dm
Leave someone else's
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G
bones?
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Am
Someone else's bones?
Verse 5
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"This boat looks like a coffin
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and the water is strong
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Am
If you go, you are gone,
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gone, gone...
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If you go,
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you are gone, (gone, gone)"
Verse 6
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Fifty years later the tale turned to legend
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A wo man claimed to
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be Bess for a second
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By the fire, she said without smiling
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"I'm Bessie, I killed him,
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I was simply surviving"
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"I'm Bessie, I killed him,
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I was simply surviving"
bessie did you make it
Marissa Nadler
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