Escarpment Blues chords by Sarah Harmer

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Verse 1
D 
G 
If they blow a hole in my
D 
G 
backyard
D 
G 
D 
G 
Everyone is gonna run away
D 
G 
And the creeks won't flow to
D 
G 
the Great Lake below
D 
A 
Will the water in the wells  still be okay?
D 

Verse 2
G 
D 
If they blow a hole in the backbone
G 
D 
The one that runs across the
G 
D 
G 
muscles of the land
D 
G 
Oh, we might get a load
D 
G 
of stone for the road
D 
But I don't know how much
A 
longer we can stand
D 

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Verse 3

We'll need to build some

new apartments

And I know we're gonna

have to fix the roads

But if we blow another hole

in the escarpment

The wild ones won't have

anywhere to go

Interlude 1

If they blow

Verse 4
D 
G 
a hole in my
D 
G 
backyard
D 
G 
D 
G 
Everyone is gonna run away
D 
G 
And the creeks won't flow to
D 
G 
the Great Lake below
D 
Will the water in the well
A 
s  still be okay?
D 

Verse 5
G 
D 
G 
A 
We'll keep driving on the Blind Line
G 
A 
If we don't know where we want to go
G 
Even knowledge that's sound
A 
can get watered down
G 
Truth can get sucked out
A 
the car window
G 
And truth can get sucked out
the car window
A 

Verse 6
G 
We're two thirds water
A 
What do we really need?
G 
But sun, showers
A 
Soil and seed

Verse 7

We're two thirds water

The aquifers provide

Deep down in the rock

There's a pearl inside

Interlude 2

If they blow

Verse 8
D 
G 
D 
a hole in the backbone
G 
D 
The one that runs across the
G 
D 
G 
muscles of the land
D 
G 
D 
Oh, we might get a load of stone
G 
for the road
D 
But I don't know how much
A 
D 
longer we can stand
G 
Oh, we might get a load
D 
G 
of stone for the road
D 
But I don't know how
A 
much longer we can stand