Key: A major
Intro 1
B
G#m
D#m
G#m
D#m
B
A
F#
Verse 1
B
D#m
B
I met you in the saddle
G#m
D#m
Rode you in the dust
G#m
D#m
Held your hand to the heavens
B
A
F#
Pulled your heart to the earth
B
There was something that
G#m
Blinded me more than the mist
D#m
G#m
D#m
And the breath of the cottonwood
E
Buds lighter yet
Verse 2
E
G#m
And you rode the maypole
D#m
of dance hall legs
G#m
D#m
And galloped to another's embrace
E
And I bit the flowers from
F#
D#m
B
your wrist corsage
C#m
G#m
You waltzed too slowly
C#m
G#m
Too slowly you waltzed
A
With that girl from Widow's
Grove
F#
D#m
Verse 3
F#
B
F#
B
Oh I'd follow you to the
F#
river
B
F#
B
F#
That washes out to the sea
B
Through the wind through
C#m
F#
D#m
B
The rain of a cold dark night
C#m
F#
B
That's where I'll be
Interlude 1
F#
B
F#
B
Verse 4
B
D#m
Near the breath of a swallow
G#m
D#m
The petals dropped as you fell
G#m
And you grabbed me then shyly
D#m
B
A
F#
Held me against the stone cold well
B
In your hand was a glass
G#m
D#m
B
You held the ice against the night
G#m
D#m
And it dripped and it sparkled
B
E
And I laughed a wish
Verse 5
E
G#m
Before it all slipped down
D#m
The dark tunneled well
G#m
I heard it melt quietly
D#m
And I looked at you
E
Bent to the earth with
F#
B
Just one pleading wish
C#m
Your skirts brushed to
G#m
A
The furious pounding
F#
Verse 6
B
F#
B
F#
I'd follow you to the river
B
F#
B
That washes out to the sea
Through the wind through
C#m
F#
D#m
B
The rain of a cold dark night
C#m
F#
B
That's where I'll be
Interlude 2
B
D#m
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
A
F#
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
A
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
C#m
F#
B
C#m
F#
B
F#
B
F#
I hid in the
Verse 7
B
D#m
elm and raised the bough
G#m
D#m
That hung even with your neck
G#m
D#m
B
And I chased you and drowned you
A
Am
F#
There deep in the well
B
And when your mouth was full and wet
G#m
D#m
B
I swallowed all your reckless fate
G#m
D#m
And with your last breath
B
A
You moaned too drunk to wake
F#
Verse 8
B
F#
B
F#
I'd follow you to the river
B
F#
B
F#
That washes out to the sea
B
Through the wind through
C#m
F#
B
The rain of a cold dark night
C#m
F#
B
That's where I'll be
Outro 1
B
C#m
F#
B
C#m
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
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