Chords for John Butler Trio - 'Wade In The Water' (Behind The Song)
Tempo:
72.275 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] I took off to India to learn from a great Hindustani slide player named Dada Shish,
And I'd always wanted, I used to have this vision board, you know, of like all my dreams
I literally got a picture of him and a picture of me playing
And so I found out that he was doing lessons.
actually watched this gig and this lap steel player was playing, and he said, yeah, I did
I remember thinking to myself, no, I just had to go.
if everybody's doing it, I didn't realize he [Ab] was doing it.
did lessons with him at his house.
And I'd always wanted, I used to have this vision board, you know, of like all my dreams
I literally got a picture of him and a picture of me playing
And so I found out that he was doing lessons.
actually watched this gig and this lap steel player was playing, and he said, yeah, I did
I remember thinking to myself, no, I just had to go.
if everybody's doing it, I didn't realize he [Ab] was doing it.
did lessons with him at his house.
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[D] I took off to India to learn from a great Hindustani slide player named Dada Shish,
Bhakticharya. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And _ I'd always wanted, I used to have this vision board, you know, of like all my dreams
and stuff on it, and he was on it, and I literally got a picture of him and a picture of me playing
and glued them next to each other. _ _
_ _ _ And so I found out that he was doing lessons.
I actually watched this gig and this lap steel player was playing, and he said, yeah, I did
some lessons with Dada Shish.
And I was like, I remember thinking to myself, _ no, I just had to go.
I was just like, dude, if everybody's doing it, I didn't realize he [Ab] was doing it.
I was a little bit like, I'm over [D] there.
So I flew over there and did lessons with him at his house.
It was off season.
Usually everybody comes in wintertime when it's cool.
I came in the summertime when it was really hot.
And so I just stayed upstairs at his place and practiced. _ _
[E] _ [C] _ _ _ [B] And so I learned [A] heaps of stuff.
[Ab] _
[F] [E] A lot of it ended up [C] finding itself or [Am] collecting.
_ [C] _ [Am] A whole bunch of water comes off a roof, of all your [F] experiences, [G] and you get these [Bm] pools that collect.
Sometimes [A] they collect a whole bunch of [Bm] leaves, and [D] other times they collect a whole bunch of rubbish.
And sometimes they collect a whole bunch of [A] candy wrappers [Bm] and shit.
[Dm] Well, [G] anyway, from [Bm] that time, there's this little [A] collection of what [Bm] India kind of, [G] and
it collected in this song called Wade in the Water, which is like this kind of, I don't
know, I [D] thought it was kind of like a Celtic major kind of thing that I'd written before
I went to India.
_ And then India kind of happened, and I learned all this technique from Guruji.
And then by the time I came out on the other side, I wrote these lyrics to the song, which
were all about wading in the water and going to the mountain, all these kind of, now I
look back and go, oh, they're all like really India references, you know, the Ganges.
I saw so many people bathing in the Ganges and bodies burning in the Ganges.
And this idea of the sadhus coming from the mountains into town and out of town. _
And my whole experience of what I was going through with anxiety and my own self-doubt
and just all the antennas being on and going, who am I and where am I, and all kind of culminated
in this thing called Wade in the Water.
So I look back at it now and I go, oh, cool, this is this whole kind of self-reflected
journey that _ voiced itself through the techniques I learned in India, the instrument that I
practiced in India, and all this energy that ended up becoming metaphor for this, a bit
of an [Bm] existential kind of spiritual [Gm] journey [D]
that I was on during the album and that I'm
[Bm] still feeling today.
_ [G] _ [D] _
Bhakticharya. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And _ I'd always wanted, I used to have this vision board, you know, of like all my dreams
and stuff on it, and he was on it, and I literally got a picture of him and a picture of me playing
and glued them next to each other. _ _
_ _ _ And so I found out that he was doing lessons.
I actually watched this gig and this lap steel player was playing, and he said, yeah, I did
some lessons with Dada Shish.
And I was like, I remember thinking to myself, _ no, I just had to go.
I was just like, dude, if everybody's doing it, I didn't realize he [Ab] was doing it.
I was a little bit like, I'm over [D] there.
So I flew over there and did lessons with him at his house.
It was off season.
Usually everybody comes in wintertime when it's cool.
I came in the summertime when it was really hot.
And so I just stayed upstairs at his place and practiced. _ _
[E] _ [C] _ _ _ [B] And so I learned [A] heaps of stuff.
[Ab] _
[F] [E] A lot of it ended up [C] finding itself or [Am] collecting.
_ [C] _ [Am] A whole bunch of water comes off a roof, of all your [F] experiences, [G] and you get these [Bm] pools that collect.
Sometimes [A] they collect a whole bunch of [Bm] leaves, and [D] other times they collect a whole bunch of rubbish.
And sometimes they collect a whole bunch of [A] candy wrappers [Bm] and shit.
[Dm] Well, [G] anyway, from [Bm] that time, there's this little [A] collection of what [Bm] India kind of, [G] and
it collected in this song called Wade in the Water, which is like this kind of, I don't
know, I [D] thought it was kind of like a Celtic major kind of thing that I'd written before
I went to India.
_ And then India kind of happened, and I learned all this technique from Guruji.
And then by the time I came out on the other side, I wrote these lyrics to the song, which
were all about wading in the water and going to the mountain, all these kind of, now I
look back and go, oh, they're all like really India references, you know, the Ganges.
I saw so many people bathing in the Ganges and bodies burning in the Ganges.
And this idea of the sadhus coming from the mountains into town and out of town. _
And my whole experience of what I was going through with anxiety and my own self-doubt
and just all the antennas being on and going, who am I and where am I, and all kind of culminated
in this thing called Wade in the Water.
So I look back at it now and I go, oh, cool, this is this whole kind of self-reflected
journey that _ voiced itself through the techniques I learned in India, the instrument that I
practiced in India, and all this energy that ended up becoming metaphor for this, a bit
of an [Bm] existential kind of spiritual [Gm] journey [D]
that I was on during the album and that I'm
[Bm] still feeling today.
_ [G] _ [D] _
