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