Everythings Turning To White Chords by Paul Kelly

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_ Late on a Friday, my husband went up to [F] the mountains with [C] three friends. _
They took provisions, bottles of bourbon, to last [F] them all [C] through the weekend.
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One hundred [C] miles they drove, _ [Am] _ just to [F] fish in a stream.
_ And there's so [C] much [F] water, _ [C] so [G] _ close [C] to home.
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ When they arrived, it was cold and dark.
[F] They set up their camp [C] quickly, _ _ warmed up with whiskey.
They walked to the river, where [F] the water [C] flowed past darkly.
[Am] In the moonlight, they saw the [C] body of a [Am] girl, _ floating face [F] down. _
And there's [C] so much water, [F] _ [C] so _
[G] _ close [C] to home.
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_ [F] When he holds me now, [C] I'm pretending. _
_ [F] I feel like I'm frozen [G] inside. _
[F] And behind [C] my eyes, [F] my daily [C] disguise, _
[F] _ [G] everything's turning [C] to white.
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_ _ _ It was too hard to tell how long she'd been dead.
[F] The river was that close [C] to freezing.
_ _ But one thing for sure, the girl hadn't died very [F] well, to judge [C] from the bruising.
They [Am] stood there above her, all [C] thinking the [Am] same thoughts at the [F] same time.
There's so much [C] [F] water, _ [C] so [G] close _ [C] to home.
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_ So this is what they did.
They carried her downstream from their fishing.
_ [F] Between two smooth [C] rocks, they gently wedged her.
_ After all, it was late.
_ [F] They'd come a long way, the girl would keep.
She was [C] going nowhere.
_ _ [Am] They stayed out there fishing for [C] two days.
_ [Am] They reported it on Sunday when [F] they came back down.
_ There's [C] so much water, [F] _ [C] so _ [G] _ close [C] to home.
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[C] _ _ [F] When he holds me now, [C] I'm pretending.
_ [F] _ Nothing is [G] working inside.
_ [F] And behind [Am] my eyes, [F] my daily [C] disguise, _ _ [F] [G] everything's [C] turning to white.
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[F] _ _ [C] _ _ Now the newspapers said that the girl had been strangled to death.
[F] _ And also [C] molested.
_ On the day of the funeral, the radio reported that a young [F] man had [C] been arrested.
_ [Am] I went to the service as [C] stranger. _
[Am] I drove past the lake out of [F] town. _
There's so [C] much water, [F] _ [C] so _
[G] _ close [C] to home. _ _ _
_ [F] When he holds me now, [C] I'm pretending.
_ [F] I feel like I'm frozen [G] inside.
And [C] _ _ _ _ [F] [C] behind my [F] eyes, my daily [C] disguise, _ [F] _ [G] everything's turning [C] to white. _ _ _ _ _
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