Everything's Turning To White Paul Kelly
N.B. chords are inside parenthesis "[]" and a preceding h = hammer-on chord
Intro B B B
Late on a Friday my husband went up to the mountains with three friends
They took provisions and bottles of bourbon to last them all through the weekend
One hundred miles they drove just to fish in a stream
There's so much water so close to home h
When they arrived it was cold and dark, they set up they're camp quickly
Warmed up with whisky they walked to the river where the water flowed past darkly
In the moonlight they saw the body, of a girl floating face down
There's so much water so close to home B B
[Chorus1]
[Bass run into the chorus A B C F]
When he holds me now I'm pretending
I feel like I'm frozen inside
And behind my eyes, my daily disguise
Everything's turning to white B B B [Bass run into the chorus A B C F]
It was too hard to tell how long she's been dead the river was that close to freezing
But one things for sure, the girl hadn't died very well to judge from the bruising
They stood there above her all thinking, the same thoughts at the same time
There's so much water so close to home B B
[spoken]
So here's what they did, they carried her downstream from their fishing,
between two smooth rocks they gently wedged her
After all it was late, they had come a long way, and the girl would keep, she was going nowhere
They stayed up there fishing for two days
They reported it on Sunday when they came back down
[sung] There's so much water so close to home B B
[Chorus2]
When he holds me now I'm pretending
Nothing is working inside
And behind my eyes, my daily disguise
Everything's turning to white B B B [bass note run ABCF]
The newspapers said the girl had been strangled to death, and also molested
On the day of the funeral, the radio reported that a young man had been arrested
I went to the service a stranger, I drove past the lake out of town
There's so much water so close to home h
[Repeat Chorus1]