The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86310 Message #1715053
Posted By: mandotim
11-Apr-06 - 07:35 AM
Thread Name: When Did You First Hear John Prine??
Subject: Lyr Add: CROSSING MUDDY WATERS (John Hiatt)
Hey Harmony; don't be embarrassed; I get singer/songwriters mixed up all the time!
Try this;
Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt
G C
My baby's gone and I don't know why
D7 Em
She let out this morning
G C
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
D7 G
Left me without warning
(repeat chords)
Sooner than the dogs could bark
And faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
She took a flatboat across the shallow
Chorus:
G C
Left me in my tears to drown
D Em
She left a baby daughter
G C
Now the water's wide and deep and brown
D7 G
She's crossing muddy waters
Tobacco standing in the fields
Be rotten come november
And a bitter heart will not reveal
A spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine
Her black eyes are ravens
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she'd been saving
Chorus
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
Or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
To take her from her loved ones
Chorus twice
It's a cracking song; hope this helps!
Tim from Bit on the Side