Crossing Muddy Waters chords by John Hiatt
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Verse 1
My (E minor) (C major) (D major) (E minor) (C major) (D major) (G major)
baby's
gone and I don't know (C major) why
(D major) She let out (E minor) this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow (C major) sky
She (D major) left me without (G major) warning
Sooner than the dogs could (C major) bark
And (D major) faster than the (E minor) sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule (C major) car
She took a (D major) flatboat across the (G major) shallow
Left me in my (C major) tears to
Verse 2
drown
She (D major) left a baby (E minor) daughter
Now the river's wide
and deep and (C major) brown
She's (D major) crossing muddy (G major) waters
(C major) (D major) (E minor) (C major)
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Verse 3
(D major) (G major)
Tobacco standing in the (C major) fields
Be (D major) rotten come November (E minor)
And a bitter heart will not reveal
(C major) A (D major) spring that love (G major) re members
When that sweet brown girl (C major) of mine
(D major) Her black eyes are (E minor) ravens
We broke the bread and drank the (C major) wine
From a (D major) jug that she'd been (G major) saving
Left me in my (C major) tears to
Verse 4
drown
She (D major) left a baby (E minor) daughter
Now the river's wide
and deep and (C major) brown
She's (D major) crossing muddy (G major) waters
(C major) (D major) (E minor) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 5
Baby's crying and the daylight's (C major) gone
That (D major) big oak tree is (E minor) groaning
In a rush of wind and (G major) river of (C major) song
I can (D major) hear my true love (G major) moaning
Crying for (C major) her baby child
Or (D major) crying for her (E minor) husband
Crying for that river's (C major) wild
To (D major) take her from her (G major) loved ones
Left me in my (C major) tears
Verse 6
to drown
She (D major) left a baby (E minor) daughter
Now the river's wide
and deep and (C major) brown
And she's (D major) crossing muddy (G major) waters
Verse 7
Now the river's wide
and deep and (C major) brown
And she's (D major) crossing muddy (G major) waters
(C major) (D major) (G major)
Crossing Muddy Waters
John Hiatt
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