Chords for Sarah Harmer - Escarpment Blues

If they blow a hole in my backyard, _ _ everyone is gonna run away
And the creeks won't flow to the great lake below, [D] will the water in [A] the well still be [D] okay? _
_ _ _ If they blow a hole in the backbone, the one that runs across [G] the muscles of the [G] land
We might get a load [D] of stone for the road, but I don't know [A] how much longer [D] we can stand _ _ _ _ _
_ We'll need to build some [A] cool _ apartments
_ [A] _ And [G] I know we're gonna have to [A] fix the _ _ roads
But if [G] we blow _ another hole in [A] the _ escarpment, _ _ the [G] wild ones won't _ have [A] anywhere to go
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ If they blow [G] a hole in my backyard, _ everyone is gonna [D] run [G] away
[D] And the creeks [G] won't flow [D] to the great lake [G] below, [D] will the water in [A] the well still be [D] okay? _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] We'll keep _ _ driving [A] on the blind line _ _
[G] If we _ don't know where [A] we wanna go _ _ _
[G] Even _ _ knowledge that's sound can [A] get watered down _ _
_ [G] Truth can get sucked out the [A] car window _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] Truth can get sucked out the car [A] window _ _ _ _ _
[G] But two-thirds water, _ [A] what do we really need? _
[G] The sun, _ shower, _ _
_ [A] soil, and sea _ _ _
[G] _ Two-thirds water, [A] the _ aquifers provide _
[G] Deep down _ in the rock, [A] there's a pearl inside _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] If [D] they blow [G] a hole in [D] the backbone, [G] the [D] one that runs across the muscles of the land
We might [G] get a load of stone for the road, [D] but I don't know [A] how much longer we [D] can stand
_ We might [G] get a load of stone [D] for the road, but I don't know how [A] much longer we [D] can stand _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _