Jackson Browne

Rock Me On The Water

Jackson Browne


Tom: D

G              Em                  C                 G
Oh people, look around you the signs are everywhere
C                    G         F       C      D             Em
You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one to care
G                       Em                 C                A         A7
You're lost inside your houses there's no time to find you now
G                                     D
While your walls are burning and your towers are turning
Em                                          C                     G
I'm going to leave you here and try to get down to the sea somehow
D

[Verse]
G                            Em                       C          G
The road is filled with homeless souls every woman, child and man
C               G  F             C                D              Em
Who have no idea where they will go but they'll help you if they can
G                  Em                                C                   A       A7
Now everyone must have some thought that's going to pull them through somehow
G                              D
While the fires are raging hotter and hotter
Em                                        C                    G
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now

[Chorus]
D                 C
Rock me on the water
C               G         D       C
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
G          D   Em
Rock me on the water
A
I'll get down to the sea somehow
C                               G
(I'll get down to the sea somehow)

[Interlude]
G               Em             C      A      Asus               G              D
Em              C

[Verse]
G              Em                  C                 G
Oh people, look among you it's there your hope must lie
C                    G         F               C         D           Em
There's a sea bird above you gliding in one place like Jesus in the sky
G                  Em                        C                   A    A7
We all must do the best we can and then hang on to that gospel plow
G                               D
When my life is over, and I stand before the father
Em                                       C                    G
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now

[Chorus]
G           D        C
Rock me on the water
C               G         D       C
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
G          D   Em
Rock me on the water
A
Maybe I'll remember
C                    G
Maybe I'll remember now
G          D     C
Rock me on the water
G               D     C
The wind is with me now
      G    D        C
So rock me on the water
A
I'll get down to the sea somehow
C
I'll get down to the sea somehow
G       D    C   G
Rock me on the water
D        C
Rock me now
G      D       C   G
Rock me on the water
D           C
Rock me now