BASS ONLY INTRO & VERSE
VERSE 1 Dm G A C
Half-hour climb and our world was gone...
Poplar, maple, below us sycamore marking the creek,
Crushed wintergreen and mountain laurel sweet around us,
Wind masking the cars we knew moved behind the ridge, empty sky.
CHORUS Dm G A C TROMBONE ENTERS
When the earth's shadow nearly covered the moon,
I stripped and swam out along a trail of light.
Sneezed and sputtered in the cold mountain water,
It was dark, it was light.
VERSE 2 Dm G A C
Waded downstream an hour, reached the lake and made camp
Without speaking oh what could we have said?
"Those are fish?" "My feet are cold?" "I love you?"
All true enough, all true enough.
CHORUS REPEAT
VERSE 3 Dm G A C TROMBONE ENTERS
No shore, no sky, no trail, only water,
Only cold, only me in the night, bobbing for a while up and down.
I knew the moon would be back without me, knew the crocus would bloom next spring,
Right where they bloomed, right where they bloomed the phone rings. Dm G A
BRIDGE FM7 G
With my father's heart attack, the Sisters spin into the sky
And out again behind the city's lights, knew the sun would find the world
The sun would find the world unchanged-- and the sky,
The sky, the sky would fill with stars. ON G
MANDOLIN LEAD Dm G A C
CHORUS REPEAT 2X
ENDS ON A "It was light..."