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From: [email protected] (Chris Tapio)
Washing Of The Water (Peter Gabriel)
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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription
is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.
Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to [email protected] ;^)
Intro:
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River, river, carry me on
C
Living river, carry me on
C
River, river, carry me on
F/C C
To the place where I come from
Bb/C C
Verse:
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So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride
C F/D C/E F C
If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside
C G/B Am F C
River, show me how to float, I feel like I’m sinking down
C F/D G/B C F C
Thought that I could get along
Am/C C Em/B G/B F C
Chorus:
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But here in this water, my feet won’t touch the ground
C Am/F D/Gb Fmaj7/G Dm/G C
I need something to turn myself around
C Am/F D/Gb Fmaj7/G Dm/G C
River deep, can you lift up and carry me
Oh roll on through the heartland
‘Til the sun has left the sky
River, river, carry me high [chorus] ‘Til the washing of the water, make it all alright
Let your waters reach me, like she reached me tonight
Bridge:
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Letting go, it’s so hard, the way it’s hurting now
Am C/G Fmaj7
To get this love untied
D/Gb E/Ab Am
So tough to stay with this thing, cos if I follow through
C/G Fmaj7
I face what I denied
D/Gb E/Ab Am
I’ll get those hooks out of me
C/G
And I’ll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side
Fmaj7 D/Gb E/Ab Am
Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide
C/G Fmaj7 C
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep
In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away
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// What makes mass society so difficult to bear //
// is not the number of people involved…but //
// the fact that the world between them has lost //
// its power to gather them together, to relate //
// and to separate them. — Hannah Arendt, 1958 //
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// Chris Tapio [email protected] //
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