seldom scene - "muddy water-crd"

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Subject: Muddy Water

This one was not easy! I had never heard of this song, so went searching on the internet.

The attached file has two parts. The first part contains the original lyrics as performed by the original artists, The Seldom Scene (a bluegrass band that was formed in 1971).

The second part contains some chords that I was able to find, but that version was performed by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (musical genre unknown).

I suggest that you try and track down a copy of the version performed by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. You can give it a listen and see if it was sung in the same style as the original. If it was, the chords should be pretty close.

Hope this helps.

Chris
Muddy Water

Mary grab the baby river's rising
Muddy water's taking back the land
Well this old house it won't take one more beating
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand.

The morning light showed water in the valley
Daddy's grave just went below the line
Things to save you just can't take them with you
The flood will swallow all we leave behind.

I won't be back to start all over
'Cause what I felt before is gone
Mary grab the baby river's rising
Muddy water's taking back our home.

Now the road is gone there's just one way to leave here.
I'll turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting land and broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I know.

It's hard to say just what I'm losing
Ain't never been so all alone
Mary grab the baby river's rising
Muddy water's taking back my home.
Well muddy water's taking back my home.

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Muddy Water (as sung by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)

Cm G Cm
Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
Eb Fm G
Muddy water taking back the land
Cm G Cm
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
Fm G Cm
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand

Cm G Cm
Well the morning light shows water in the valley
Eb Fm G
Daddy's grave just went below the line
Cm G Cm
Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
Fm G Cm
This flood will swallow all you've left behind

Eb Bb
Won't be back to start all over
Eb G
Cause what I felt before is gone

Cm G Cm
Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home
The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
Turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting land, broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I know

It's hard to say just what I'm losing
Ain't never felt so all alone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home

Won't be back to start all over
Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water's changing all I know
Muddy water's changing all I know
Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home

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