Rapids

by R I McNabb

CHORDS

Dadd9   x x 12 11 10 12
Badd9   x x  9  8  7  9
Cadd9   x x 10  9  8 10
Aadd9   x x  7  6  5  7
B       x x  2  4  4  4
E       x x  6  4  5  4
Abadd9  x x  6  5  4  6
Bbadd9  x x  8  7  6  8

INTRO
Dadd9 / / / |Badd9 / / / |Cadd9 / / / |Aadd9 / / /

 





..D+9..........B+9....C+9......A+9...
e|........12.......9........10.....7.
b|....10....10...7..7....8....8..5..5
g|..11..........8.......9.......6....
d|12....12.....9..9...10..10...7..7..
a|...................................
E|...................................

VERSE (picking sections as above)
Dadd9 / / / |Badd9 / / / |Cadd9 / / / |Aadd9 / / /


CHORUS
B / / / |E / / / |G#add9 / / / |Bbadd9 / / / x 4



VERSE 1
Vagrant suspicious and quite out of breath
Stumbles into a town where the people wear frowns
Picks up a paper the pages are blank
They say no news today no more writers around

VERSE 2
I sing this song with my tongue in my cheek
For the jilted the jaundiced, the angry young men
Who somehow believe that the status quo changes
With juvenile slogans in down-market rags

CHORUS
What price hope over adversity
Cause to applaud this perversity
I'm still deaf from the hydroplanes
Blessed with a cynical gaze
No words in our own defence
Independence our recompense
Fate casting her final line
To pity or to pay
These rapids are rolling on
Seem calm when they're good and gone
Love's as good as the house it warms
A million miles between us
Still we're heading the same way

OUTRO
Headin' the same way