The Rock chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: G minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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The rock is gonna fall on us,

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he woke with a start

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And he ran to his mother,

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the fear dark in his heart

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And he told her of the vision

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that he was sure he'd seen

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She said: "Go back to sleep son,

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you're having a bad dream!"

Verse 2

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Silly child

Everybody knows the rock

leans over the town

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Everybody knows that it won't

tumble to the ground

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Remember Chicken Little said

the sky was falling down

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Well nothing ever came of that,

the world still whirls around

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Verse 3

"The rock is gonna fall on us,"

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he stood and told the class

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The professor put his chalk down

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and peered out through his glasses

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But he went on and said; "I've seen it,

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high up on the hill

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If it doesn't fall this year

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then very soon it will!"

Verse 4

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Crazy boy

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Everybody knows the rock

leans over the town

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Everybody knows that it won't

tumble to the ground

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We've more important studies

than your fantasies and fears

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You know that rock's been

Verse 5

perched up there

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for a hundred thousand years

"The rock is gonna fall on us."

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He told the magistrates

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"I believe that we can stop it but

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the time is getting late

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You see I've done all the research

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my plans are all complete."

Verse 6

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He was showing them contingencies

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when they showed him to the street

Just a madman

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Everybody knows

Verse 7

the rock

leans over the town

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Everybody knows that it won't

tumble to the ground

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Everybody knows of those

who say the end is near

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Everybody knows that life goes on as

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usual round here

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Verse 8

He went up on the mountain

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beside the giant stone

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They knew he was insane so

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they left him alone

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He'd given up enlisting help for

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there was no one else

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He spent his days devising ways

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to stop the rock himself

Verse 9

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One night while he was working building

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braces on the ledge

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The ground began to rumble the rock

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trembled on the edge

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"The rock is gonna fall on us! Run

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or you'll all be crushed!"

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And indeed the rock was moving,

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crumbling all to dust

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He ran

Verse 10

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under it with one last hope

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that he could add a prop

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And as he disappeared

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the rock came to a stop

The people ran into the street

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but by then all was still

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The rock seemed where it always

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was or where it always will be

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When someone asked where

Verse 11

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he had

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gone they said: "Oh he was daft.

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Who cares about that crazy fool."

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And then they'd start to laugh

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But high up on the mountain

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When the wind is hitting it

Verse 12

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If you're watching very closely

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The rock slips a little bit

Outro 1

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