Judy Collins – Grand Canyon (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] | Am | F | Am | F | [Verse 1]
   Am             Am/G
Outside my window lies the canyon

F                    G         D
 Red and turquoise, orange and blue

Am                     Am/G
 Wandering through the painted desert

F                     G       D
 Like some bewildered drunken fool

F             Am
 The Colorado deep within her

F                  Am
Cuts and rolls and sings and plays

F               Am
 Waterfalls and purple rainbows

F                G      Dsus4    D
 In her mists of silver haze
[Verse 2]
Am            Am/G
Once I knew a man who traveled

F                G     D
 Down her waters every day

Am               Am/G
 Made his living guiding strangers

F                  G        D
 Where his shadows knew the way

F               Am
 On the borders of the rivеr

F                  Am
Lit the fires and smoked thе pipes

F                   Am
 Told the travelers all his stories

F                 G       Dsus4
 Dared the men to win the prize
[Chorus 1]
C
White with foam the water danced

F
 Over rocks and under skies

C
 Blue with summer, drenched in rain

F            G    Dsus2
 Faster than I realized
[Verse 3]
Am            Am/G
 He was hard about his work

F               G    D
 Soft about the columbines

Am            Am/G
 Spoke about Apache friends

F                   G      D
Missed the years of silver mines

F                  Am
 When the west was far away

F                  Am
 Safe from eastern peddlers

F                Am
 When the canyon was his own

F             G        D
 Far from mindless meddlers
[Chorus 2]
C
In his arms I often listened

F
 Sharing every dream he dreamed

C
 A summer lover soon to fly

F                   G         Dsus4    D
 Far from where the moonlight gleamed
[Verse 4]
Am           Am/G
I have often thought of him

F                G       D
 Riding down the river's heart

Am              Am/G
 Living for the plunging waters

F            G     D
 Prying mysteries apart

F            Am
Is he still alive and smiling

F            Am
 Through a hazy waterfall

F            Am
 Sometimes I think it was madness

F                 G        Dsus2
 To have left his lonesome call

   F               G      Dsus2
To sail beyond the canyon wall

F              G     Dsus2
Out to where coyotes call

F               G         Dsus2
Back then, when I knew it all
[Outro] | F | Dsus2 | F G | Am |