Chords for Indigo Girls - Watershed on The Tonight Show 1991

Our next guests _ _ are a very talented singer and songwriter.
Last year they won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording and they are nominated in that
category again this year.
They begin a new tour this Friday in Nashville at the Tennessee
Performing Arts Center.
This is their current CD called Nomads Indian Saints.
Please welcome
the Indigo Girl. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] Nothing planned out as I _ _ _ _ planned.
[A] _ They say only _ [Am] milk and honey's gonna make you so _
_ [G] _ satisfied.
[Gb] _ _
_ [E] _ Better learn [D] how to [G] _ swim, cause the [Bb] crossing [C] is chilly and _ [D] wide.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [D] Twisted guardrails [A] on the [Bm] highway, _ broken glass on the [D]
cement.
_ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
_ It's a ghost of [D] someone's _ tragedy, _ [Bm] how recklessly [G] my time has been [C] _
_ [G] spent.
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_ They say that [D] it's never too [Am] late, but you don't, you don't get [G] any younger.
[D] _ _ _ [E] _
So better learn how to [G] _
starve the emptiness, _ [Bb] _
feed [C] _ _ [D] the hunger.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Up on the _ watershed, _ _ _ _ standing at the fork in the [G] road.
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You [Bb] can stand there [Bm] and _ _ [D] agonize, do [G] no agonize, [E] you'll never be as [A] low.
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You'll never fly as the [D] crow _ _ flies, you're [A]
used to a country _ [G] _
mile.
[D] _ _ _ [E] _
_ You're learning [G] to face the path at your [D] _
pace, every choice is worth your _ while.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ And there's [D] always _ _ [A] _ retrospect [Bm] _
_ to find a clearer [D] _
path.
_ _ _ [G] _
Every five years or so [D] I look back on my [Bm] life and [G] I have a good [C] _
laugh.
[G] _ _ _ [A] _
Cause you start at [D] the _ top, go full circle round, catch a breeze, [G] take a spill.
[D] _ _ _ [E] _
But ending [G] up where I started [Bb] again makes [C] me wanna [D] stand _ _ _ still.
[E] _
Up on the _ watershed, _ _ _ [A] _
standing at the fork in the [G] _
_ road.
_ [A] _ _
You [E] can stand there [Bm] and _ _ [A] _ agonize, [G] do no agonize, [E] you'll never be [A] as low.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ You'll never fly as [D] the crow _ _ [E] flies, _ you're used to a country _
[G] mile.
_ [D] _ _ _
[E] _ _ You're learning [G] to _ face the path at your [Am] pace, every choice is worth [D] your _ while. _ _
_ [Bm] Stepping [A] on a [Bm] crack, _ _ _ _
[C] breaking up _ [G]
and looking back.
[Bm] Every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait.
_ [C]
Till every step you take [G] becomes a twist [A] of fate.
_ [E] _
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Up on [D] the _ _ watershed, _ _ _ standing at the fork in the [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [A] road.
You [E] can stand there [Bm] and _ _ [D] _
agonize, [G] do no agonize, [E] you'll never be as [A] _ low. _
[E] _ _ _ [A] You'll never fly as the crow _ flies, you're [Am] used to a country mile.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ You're learning to [G] _ _ face the path at your [C] _ pace, every choice is [D] worth your _ while.
_ _ [G] _ _ [B] You're learning [G] to face the path at your pace, [A] every choice is worth [D] your _ _ _ while.
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_ _ Oh, you're great!
Amy _ _ _ _ _ and Emily, right?
Yes.
Very [E] nice, very nice.
See, I'm old New England folky.
I used to go to Passemes in Boston.
I know you.
_ Tom Rush and David Bromberg and Joni Mitchell and so it's great.
I like [N] this kind of music.
Congratulations on your _ Grammy, first of all, last year.
Thank you.
And you're nominated again, Nisha?
No, no.
_ No, no, the best part.
They were nominated for two Grammys last year.
You won for?
Best Contemporary Folk.
Best Contemporary Folk.
And your other nomination was for?
Best New Artist.
Best New Artist.
And you lost to?
Millie Vanille. _
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_ That must be satisfying.
It's kind of embarrassing. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now where did you _ guys meet?
How long have you been performing?
We met in elementary school _ when I was 11 and Amy was 10.
_ And went to the same high school and just started to play because there was a PTA show that they needed some entertainment for
and so we were like the hot item for the PTA show and _ played for them.
There you go, I see that.
A [G] lot of things come out of PTA shows. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N]
I notice, wait, I got to check out this tattoo.
There you go.
Oh, that's pretty.
And that looks Indian to me, is it?
Well, yeah, the cross is a Sioux Indian cross.
Are you part Sioux?
No. _
_ _ But they're nice people so why not get that tattooed?
Well, that's terrific.
Good job, you guys.
The book, I mean, the CD is Nomads, Indians, Saints.
Indigo Girls, be right back.
_ Be right back. _
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