saltwater blues chords by Thomas Helmig

SimplifiedG · C · F · D

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Its not
C 
the money you make
G 
It’s not the promises
C 
you always break
G 
C 
Its not the light of reason that
G 
C 
you’ve got turned way down low

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Verse 2

Its not the wife you cheated on

Its not the mistress you chose

to lay you’re love upon

Its certainly not the children that

you hardly know

Verse 3

It’s the fact that you can

’t even feel

Verse 4
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
F 
The ship is thinking
D 
Were all gonna be drinking
C 
G 
C 
the saltwater
G 
C 
drinking the saltwater

Verse 5
G 
C 
Its not the wars you make
G 
C 
Its not the peace you fake
G 
C 
It’s not the eye you close at the back
you always see the turn
G 
C 

Verse 6
G 
C 
Hey it ain’t the crime
G 
C 
It ain’t the getaway,
G 
get away, getaway
C 
It’s not the number of bridges
that you violently burn
G 
C 

Verse 7

It’s the fact that you

can’t even feel

Verse 8
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
F 
The ship is sinking
D 
Were all gonna be drinking
G 
C 
the saltwater

Interlude 1

drinking the saltwater

It’s not the government

Verse 9

It’s not the evil we represent

It’s not the way we shake our heads and say

“What more can we do?”

Verse 10

It’s not the hope we killed

It ain’t the holes we filled

It certainly ain’t the trees or the leaves that pretty

soon we are gonna have to stick on with glue

Verse 11

It’s the fact that we

can’t even feel

Verse 12
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G 
C 
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
F 
The ship is thinking
D 
Were all gonna be drinking
G 
C 
the saltwater
G 
C 
drinking the saltwater
G 
C 
drinking the saltwater
G 
C 
drinking the saltwater
G 
The ship is sinking