Cary Ann Hearst

Eastern Continental Divide(Chords)

Cary Ann Hearst

Key: C

roll up this ad to continue

	        
Verse 

C               G              C              F 
I found no satisfaction in the lies I told to you 
C           G               C                Am        
Anything is better than the cumbrance of the truth 
     C                    F 
So I stole your last gold dollar 
C                       F 
Took everything I could find 
C                G 
Went out west to gamble 
C                        F 
Drink out the trouble in mind 

F              C          G 
I crossed that deep muddy water 
    C                      F 
The last of my dignity and pride 
        C                     G              C            G        C 
Watched them sink down in the bottom of that eastern continental divide 

F C F Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all C G A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall F C G And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time F C G C I never meant to hit the bottom of that eastern continental divide
verse C G I thought I'd make our fortune C F Make something outta nothing again C G Like I did when I first loved you C Am When I was an honest man C F Now my eyes are blacker than burned out tyres C F As I walk to the rising sun C G Too far gone for turning around C F Nothing left to be won F C G I crossed that great smokey mountain C F From Tennessee to South Carolina C G C G Am C Faded in the bottom of that eastern continental divide
F C F Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all C G A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall F C G And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time F C G Am You never will get over that eastern continental divide F G F C That eastern continental divide

See Also: