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Water Water Please Come Back chords by Jim Lauderdale

  • G

  • F

  • Bb

  • Eb

    6
  • C

  • Gm

    3
  • Cm

    3
  • Bdim

Verse 1
G
F
G
F
G
Water, water,
please come back
F
G
Been so long I'm losing track
F
G
Has my thinking gone awry?
F
G
F
G
Or is the bar just set too high?
F
G
We need you here for everything
Bb
Eb
C
Oh, won't you flow this way again?
G
Bb
Please, for the good of humans' sake
Eb
C
Bring to us the purest ways
G
Cascades to drink out of
Bb
Eb
The essence of our sacred love
G
F
G
The essence of sacred love
F
Water, water, please reply
G
F
G
F
G
We're still here and going dry
F
G
Don't make sense to move away
F
G
F
G
F
G
I'm waiting for a rainy day
F
G
Gm
The rest of them on Noah's Ark
Bb
Eb
C
were looking for a place to park
G
Out on the deck when it got dark
Bb
Eb
C
they couldn't tell themselves apart
G
For forty days and forty nights
Bb
Eb
without a bit of landing site
G
F
G
F
G
F
G
Cm
Searching for some landing site
Bdim
G
F
G
F
G
F
G
F
G
F
G
Gm
Bb
Eb
C
The
G
This time I will conserve,
Bb
Eb
C
the natural law I will observe
G
Per gallon for the going rate,
Bb
Eb
just let me take my time to pay
G
F
G
I'll figure out a way to pay
F
G
Water, water, let's be clear
F
G
F
G
F
We don't want no drama here
G
Wa ter, water, let me swim,
F
G
F
G
far from the shape we're in.
We need you here for everything,
Bb
Eb
C
oh, won't you flow this way again?
G
Bb
For he who's got the most don't win,
Eb
C
but I'd lose for a while like him.
G
Gm
Bb
Please, for the good of humans' sake,
Eb
C
bring to us the purest waves.
G
Bb
Cast eggs to drink out of
Eb
the essence of all sacred love
Bb
G
F
G
The essence of all sacred love
F
G
Wa ter, water,
F
G
F
please come back
G
F
G
Water, water, please come back
F
G
F
G
F
Water, water, please come back
G
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