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Thread #53519 Message #825291
Posted By: Charley Noble
13-Nov-02 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: Songs of Faithless Women
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A BOTTOM BELOW (Malvina Reynolds)
This is a good song for exploring the depths of dispair, for whatever reason, and as is usual with Malvina Reynolds there's also a sense of irony (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 for chord placement):
THERE'S A BOTTOM BELOW
(Words and music by Malvina Reynolds, Schroder Music Co. 1970)
Chorus:
F---------------------------A
Do you think you've hit bot-tom?
F
Do you think you've hit bot-tom?
----E
Oh, no! There's a bot-tom be-low.
E--------D
There's a low be-low the low, you know;
------------------------------E------------------A
You can't i-mag-ine how far you can go – DOWN! (CHO)
Every once in a while you'll rise and glow,
But that's only so they can let you go – DOWN!! (CHO)
You sit at a party and watch the fun,
It don't touch you none 'cause you're off and gone – DOWN!!(CHO)
There's the nightmare kind where you fall and fall,
And you wake to find you haven't been dreaming at all – DOWN!! (CHO)
(Repeat first verse and chorus)
Charley Noble, who's been to that well several times