John Hiatt – Crossing Muddy Waters (Guitar)

G                            C
Baby's gone and I don't know why

D                   Em
She headed out this morning

       Em                     C
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

    D               G
She left me without warning

G                          C
Sooner than the dogs could bark

D               Em
Faster than the sun rose

     Em                       C
Down to the banks on an old mule cart

           D                    G
She took a flat boat 'cross the shallows

             C
Left me in my tears to drown

    D           Em
She left a baby daughter

        Em                        C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown

      D              G
She's crossing muddy waters

  G                       C
Tobacco standing in the fields

   D             Em
Be rotten come November

      Em                      C
And a bitter heart will not reveal

  D                  G
A spring that love remembers

G                          C
When that sweet brown girl of mine

D               Em
Hair black as a raven

   Em                            C
We broke the bread and drank the wine

       D                   G
From a jug that she'd been saving

             C
Left me in my tears to drown

    D           Em
She left a baby daughter

        Em                        C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown

      D              G
She's crossing muddy waters

G                                C
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone

     D               Em
That big oak tree is groaning

     Em                       C
In a rush of wind and a river song

      D                 G
I can hear my true love moaning

              C
Crying for her baby child

    D              Em
Oh, crying for her husband

Em                     C
Crying for that rivers wild

   D                 G
To take her from her loved ones

             C
Left me in my tears to drown

    D           Em
She left a baby daughter

        Em                        C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown

      D              G
She's crossing muddy waters

        G                         C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown

      D              G
She's crossing muddy waters