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