Rock Me on the Water
By
Jackson Browne
Submitted by Pat Donohoe
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Verse
G Em C G
Oh people, look around you the signs are everywhere
C G D C D Em
You’ve left it for somebody other than you to be the one to care
G Em C D
You’re lost inside your houses there’s no time to find you now
G D
While your walls are burning and your towers are turning
Em C G
I’m going to leave you here and try to get down to the sea somehow
D
Verse
G Em C G
The road is filled with homeless souls every woman, child and man
C G D C D Em
Who have no idea where they will go but they’ll help you if they can
G Em C D
Now everyone must have some thought that’s going to pull them through somehow
G D
While the fires are raging hotter and hotter
Em C G
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now
Chorus
D C
Rock me on the water
C G D C
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
G D Em
Rock me on the water
A
I’ll get down to the sea somehow
C
(I’ll get down to the sea somehow)
Interlude
G Em C A D G D
Em C
Verse
G Em C G
Oh people, look among you it’s there your hope must lie
C G D C D Em
There’s a sea bird above you gliding in one place like Jesus in the sky
G Em C D
We all must do the best we can and then hang on to that gospel plow
G D
When my life is over, and I stand before the father
Em C
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now
Chorus
G D C
Rock me on the water
C G D C
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
G D Em
Rock me on the water
A
Maybe I’ll remember
C
Maybe I’ll remember now
G D C
Rock me on the water
G D C
The wind is with me now
G D C
So rock me on the water
A
I’ll get down to the sea somehow
C
I’ll get down to the sea somehow
G D C G
Rock me on the water
D C
Rock me now
G D C G
Rock me on the water
D C
Rock me now
Outro
G D C D (6x) fade out
