Chords for John Butler Trio - 'Wade In The Water' (Behind The Song)
Tempo:
72.275 bpm
Chords used:
Bm
D
A
G
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[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]
Key:
Bm
D
A
G
C
Bm
D
A
[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] _