Chords for VANESSA COLLIER • When It Don't Come Easy • Briggs Farm Blues Festival 2019
Tempo:
79.95 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
Dm
F
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
One, two, three, four, five.
[D]
♪ When it don't come easy, be the river on the beach ♪
♪ When it don't come easy, nobody's gonna save you ♪
♪ [G] Well, down the mountain, [F]
well, down the [G] earth ♪
♪ It may [F] seem, when it don't come easy [E] ♪
♪ All the river keeps [D] running down the sea ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ There's a hopeless man, not in the praise of the moon ♪
♪ He's been aiming a spotlight at all my fun ♪
♪ I [G] try to slip in beneath the spats of the light ♪
But I'm having no [D] luck at all
[A] So busy wasting my [G] time
Back at the past, falling [Dm] behind
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
[Dm] [G] Way up in the [F] mountains
River down the earth
[G] Talk to me, see
[F] When it don't come easy
[E]
River keeps running [D] by and see
[Dm]
[D] Sweet [D] baby's been hard
Catching all the sudden
The problem every day
Has [G] come to slither
Like sawdust in my soul
[D]
[A] I follow the broken [G] arrow
Running down the darkened [D] air
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
I [Bb] am the rapids
[B]
Pouring and flowing
[Bb] I am the water
[Em] Tore in some [A] trees
[G] Oh I can't [F] detect
[E] You can dam up the river
[Bm] But the river I trust won't [Dm] even say Hey
[A] [Dm]
[D]
[D] [A]
[D] [Dm] Hey
[Dm] Hey Hey Hey Hey
[D] [Dm] [A]
[D]
[Eb]
[D]
♪ When it don't come easy, be the river on the beach ♪
♪ When it don't come easy, nobody's gonna save you ♪
♪ [G] Well, down the mountain, [F]
well, down the [G] earth ♪
♪ It may [F] seem, when it don't come easy [E] ♪
♪ All the river keeps [D] running down the sea ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ There's a hopeless man, not in the praise of the moon ♪
♪ He's been aiming a spotlight at all my fun ♪
♪ I [G] try to slip in beneath the spats of the light ♪
But I'm having no [D] luck at all
[A] So busy wasting my [G] time
Back at the past, falling [Dm] behind
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
[Dm] [G] Way up in the [F] mountains
River down the earth
[G] Talk to me, see
[F] When it don't come easy
[E]
River keeps running [D] by and see
[Dm]
[D] Sweet [D] baby's been hard
Catching all the sudden
The problem every day
Has [G] come to slither
Like sawdust in my soul
[D]
[A] I follow the broken [G] arrow
Running down the darkened [D] air
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
I [Bb] am the rapids
[B]
Pouring and flowing
[Bb] I am the water
[Em] Tore in some [A] trees
[G] Oh I can't [F] detect
[E] You can dam up the river
[Bm] But the river I trust won't [Dm] even say Hey
[A] [Dm]
[D]
[D] [A]
[D] [Dm] Hey
[Dm] Hey Hey Hey Hey
[D] [Dm] [A]
[D]
[Eb]
Key:
D
G
Dm
F
A
D
G
Dm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
One, two, three, four, five.
_ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
♪ When it don't come easy, be the river on the beach ♪
♪ When it don't come easy, nobody's gonna save you ♪
♪ _ [G] Well, down the mountain, _ [F]
well, down the [G] earth ♪
♪ It may [F] seem, when it don't come easy [E] ♪
♪ All the river keeps [D] running down the sea ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ _ _ There's a hopeless man, not in the praise of the moon ♪
♪ He's been aiming a spotlight at all my fun ♪
♪ I [G] try to slip in beneath the spats of the light ♪
But I'm having no [D] luck at all
_ _ _ _ _ [A] So busy wasting my [G] time
Back at the past, falling [Dm] behind
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
_ When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
_ When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
[Dm] _ _ [G] Way up in the [F] mountains
River down the earth
[G] Talk to me, see
[F] When it don't come easy
[E] _
River keeps running [D] by and see _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [D] Sweet [D] baby's been hard _
_ Catching all the sudden
The problem every day
Has [G] come to slither
Like sawdust in my soul
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] I follow the broken [G] arrow
Running down the darkened [D] air
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe _
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
I _ _ [Bb] _ am the rapids
[B] _
Pouring and flowing
[Bb] I am the water
[Em] Tore in some [A] trees
[G] Oh I can't [F] detect _
_ [E] You can dam up the river
[Bm] But the river I trust won't [Dm] even say Hey _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] Hey _ _
_ [Dm] Hey Hey Hey Hey
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
One, two, three, four, five.
_ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
♪ When it don't come easy, be the river on the beach ♪
♪ When it don't come easy, nobody's gonna save you ♪
♪ _ [G] Well, down the mountain, _ [F]
well, down the [G] earth ♪
♪ It may [F] seem, when it don't come easy [E] ♪
♪ All the river keeps [D] running down the sea ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ _ _ There's a hopeless man, not in the praise of the moon ♪
♪ He's been aiming a spotlight at all my fun ♪
♪ I [G] try to slip in beneath the spats of the light ♪
But I'm having no [D] luck at all
_ _ _ _ _ [A] So busy wasting my [G] time
Back at the past, falling [Dm] behind
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe
_ When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
_ When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
[Dm] _ _ [G] Way up in the [F] mountains
River down the earth
[G] Talk to me, see
[F] When it don't come easy
[E] _
River keeps running [D] by and see _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [D] Sweet [D] baby's been hard _
_ Catching all the sudden
The problem every day
Has [G] come to slither
Like sawdust in my soul
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] I follow the broken [G] arrow
Running down the darkened [D] air
Now I'm dancing alone in the grass all night
[F] Oh midnight dreams whisper
[E] I'll sing a listen
[Eb] Leave my shadow safe _
When it [D] don't come easy
Even river runs
When it don't come easy
Nobody's gonna save you
I _ _ [Bb] _ am the rapids
[B] _
Pouring and flowing
[Bb] I am the water
[Em] Tore in some [A] trees
[G] Oh I can't [F] detect _
_ [E] You can dam up the river
[Bm] But the river I trust won't [Dm] even say Hey _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] Hey _ _
_ [Dm] Hey Hey Hey Hey
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _