Chords for Wasn't That A Mighty Storm - Tom Rush, Taj Mahal, Jeff and Maria Maldaur and the Jug Band
Tempo:
65.15 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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It wasn't that a [C] mighty storm, [G] it wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning [C] when it wasn't that a mighty storm blew [D] all the people away.
Yet a year of [Am] 1800, so many years [C] ago, the fault on my own not yours to me, the health caused me to be low.
[Am] the sea waters roll, [C] the chiefs of the waters bend, and the high tide comes [C] rolling in.
town, it wasn't that a mighty storm.
[F] [A] [C] would give them warning, you better leave this place.
[F] [C] You're gonna leave, you're gonna [F] die, you're [C] gonna be a failure.
was, [Dm] for all the people [C] in the town, for the trouble [Am] in the world of water.
it wasn't [D] that a mighty storm.
Yet a year of [Am] 1800, so many years [C] ago, the fault on my own not yours to me, the health caused me to be low.
[Am] the sea waters roll, [C] the chiefs of the waters bend, and the high tide comes [C] rolling in.
town, it wasn't that a mighty storm.
[F] [A] [C] would give them warning, you better leave this place.
[F] [C] You're gonna leave, you're gonna [F] die, you're [C] gonna be a failure.
was, [Dm] for all the people [C] in the town, for the trouble [Am] in the world of water.
it wasn't [D] that a mighty storm.
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_ It wasn't that a [C] mighty storm, [G] it wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning [C] when it wasn't that a mighty storm blew [D] all the people away.
Yet a year of [Am] 1800, so many years [C] ago, the fault on my own not yours to me, the health caused me to be low.
Now the gallows turn as [Am] the sea waters roll, [C] the chiefs of the waters bend, and the high tide comes [C] rolling in.
For the water of the town, it wasn't that a mighty storm.
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_ [F] _ [A] _ _ [C] would give them warning, you better leave this place.
_ [F] [C] You're gonna leave, you're gonna [F] die, you're [C] gonna be a failure.
At the [Am] station where the Lord was, [Dm] for all the people [C] in the town, for the trouble [Am] in the world of water.
And the train [C] day went on down, it wasn't [D] that a mighty storm.
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Some [F] days [C] dragged and drowned us, some [F] died and more [C] severed away.
As the sea began rolling, I [F] heard a ship's aid [C] could not land.
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[C] _ _ God save a downed heavy man, it wasn't that [D] a mighty storm. _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] God [C] damn more than my knees, [G] I took [C] my mother, won't you [F] come back [C] down.
_ And the flood, it took my needle, _ [F] took my [C] breast too, [F] but I [C] heard my father call me, lost my mother gone.
_ It's not, _ _ it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ [F] From the [C] 1900s, children of the many, many, many nations. _
[F] Left home island and on the [C] ocean, left cause you got to go.
It wasn't [N] that a mighty storm, _ _ storm, _ _ [D] _
_ _ storm, storm. _ _
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_ It wasn't that a [C] mighty storm, [G] it wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning [C] when it wasn't that a mighty storm blew [D] all the people away.
Yet a year of [Am] 1800, so many years [C] ago, the fault on my own not yours to me, the health caused me to be low.
Now the gallows turn as [Am] the sea waters roll, [C] the chiefs of the waters bend, and the high tide comes [C] rolling in.
For the water of the town, it wasn't that a mighty storm.
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_ [F] _ [A] _ _ [C] would give them warning, you better leave this place.
_ [F] [C] You're gonna leave, you're gonna [F] die, you're [C] gonna be a failure.
At the [Am] station where the Lord was, [Dm] for all the people [C] in the town, for the trouble [Am] in the world of water.
And the train [C] day went on down, it wasn't [D] that a mighty storm.
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Some [F] days [C] dragged and drowned us, some [F] died and more [C] severed away.
As the sea began rolling, I [F] heard a ship's aid [C] could not land.
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[C] _ _ God save a downed heavy man, it wasn't that [D] a mighty storm. _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] God [C] damn more than my knees, [G] I took [C] my mother, won't you [F] come back [C] down.
_ And the flood, it took my needle, _ [F] took my [C] breast too, [F] but I [C] heard my father call me, lost my mother gone.
_ It's not, _ _ it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ [F] From the [C] 1900s, children of the many, many, many nations. _
[F] Left home island and on the [C] ocean, left cause you got to go.
It wasn't [N] that a mighty storm, _ _ storm, _ _ [D] _
_ _ storm, storm. _ _
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