Chords
Boatman

Key: D

Introduction:

D/9  
Hearts were exploding around us as
                                        D/F#                              G/9  
we drifted south down the bay.
             Bm7                                                             E7  
The gray up above and gray down below
Em7                         D/F#                                  A7  
left us with nothing to say.
                D/9  
So we drifted along in silence
                          D/F#                              G/9  
till the tickle of life trickled in.
                        Bm7                                                                  E7  
And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand,
Em7                         D/F#                                  A  
we were catching fire again.
G/D    D                 G                    D  
Oh boatman,    I am the river,
G/D                 D                        A      D  
I am the mountain and      the sea.
G/D    D                    G                      D         A/C#  
Oh      boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7                      E7      Em7    D/F#    G/9  
Can you deliver me?
G/9                 A                            D         G/D    D  
I would forever run free.
verse 2
                D/9  
Yeah, we finally caught up with legends,
                                             D/F#                            G/9  
we were walking along side by side.
             Bm7                                                                        E7  
We worked out a plan to go out hand in hand,
Em7                                 D/F#                                  A7  
the long trail just wasn't that wide.
          D/9  
The water around us was freezing,
                     D/9                    D/F#                            G/9  
we just laughed and threw ourselves in.
          Bm7                                                                                        E7  
And although we were old, the sting of that cold
Em7                            D/F#                                                A  
pumped up the feeling, here it is again.
G/D    D                 G                    D  
Oh boatman,    I am the river,
G/D                 D                        A      D  
I am the mountain and      the sea.
G/D    D                    G                            D         A/C#  
Oh      boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7                      E7      Em7    D/F#    G/9  
Can you deliver me?
G/9                 A                            D         G/D    D  
I would forever run free.
BRIDGE
          A            B7              E         A  
Oh, I'm a message in a bottle
A                    B7                      E         A/E    E  
drifting along on a deep blue sea.
A                    B                            E      A  
Waiting for some foreign shore,
A                      B/E                    A  
ready for something to be.
verse 3
        D/9  
No longer afraid of falling,
                             D/F#                            G/9  
we cut the strings to the sky.
                        Bm7                                                                        E7  
We found lever ground and we put ourselves down,
Em7                              D/F#             A7  
amazing we all didn't die.
        D/9  
We took each moment as given,
                                     D/F#                    G/9  
by second, by second they came.
          Bm7                                                                          E7  
The ice and the sun and the thundering guns,
Em7                              D/F#             A  
good God I was finally sane.
G/D    D                 G                    D  
Oh boatman,    I am the river,
G/D                 D                        A      D  
I am the mountain and      the sea.
G/D    D                    G                            D         A/C#  
Oh      boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7                      E7      Em7             A  
Can you deliver me?
G/D    D                                 G                    D  
Oh      holy roller,    I am the river,
G/D                 D                        A      D  
I am the mountain and      the sea.
G/D    D                    G                            D         A/C#  
Oh      boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7                      E7      Em7    D/F#    G/9  
Can you deliver me?
G/9                 A                    D  
I would forever run free.