Gone Swimming

written by Mark Curry

as performed on the album "It's Only Time"

transcribed by Anand Kumar (ST001904@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de)

This is one of the best song I know so far. Besides it's very easy (at least the

rhythm guitar, singing simutaneously might be more difficult)!

The G is played at the 3rd fret and you slide into the F played at the first

fret, everytime you have a G followed by an F.

You really have to listen to the CD for the rhythm of the voice. I thought

about putting the chords right where they are sung, but somehow this made

the appearance of the file even worse, so I aligned them to the words, which

is not exactly the way they are sung, but much easier to visualize. You'll

get it anyway, I guess.

 

 

Down by the Riverside, well there's a place for me

Where I won't sit and think about where I'd rather be

and I don't need nothing

but the look on my face

G(stop)

It's all bullshit

F(stop) D C(stop)

It's just the time it takes between

where it comes and where it

You can go swimming, no sign of rainstorms or

thunder I won't be joining you

because today between the time it's taking

F C(stop)

me to wonder I just might get sucked under

single note riff: g a# c d#^c

e-I----------------------I

h-I---------------po-----I

g-I----------5~~~-8^5~~--I

d-I----5--8--------------I

A-I----------------------I

E-I----------------------I

Down by the ocean, it's all behind me it's just an open sea,

and I can really see for miles

I wish I knew just what I was looking for

G(stop) F(stop) D

A pool of endless rhymes, I ain't talking 'bout the water

C(stop) G D

We're talking time, where it comes and where it yeah

You can go swimming, there's been no warning of hurricane

or tidal wave, ain't no dangerous fish out there

I won't be joining you still

It's just a feeling in me I get washed out to the sea

C(sus2)

Yeah the sea

D D Am Am fooling around with Dsus2, Dsus4,

D D Am Am(stop) Am7 and Amsus2 sounds nice if you're

playing alone (i.e. without band)

I wish I could go 'cause you know

that the water doesn't usually frighten me so

It's not the depth of the sea that infatuates me

It's what remains to be seen, like the time in between

where it comes and where it goes

D F C(stop) riff

where it goes yeah

Down in a creekbed in my old neighbourhood

there is a trickle that's dirty and warm

and I have spend many a childhood hour there

It's where I used to play, seems like yesterday

But I was younger then, just make believing

making wishes and tossing pennies in

G(stop) F(stop)

and now I've grown, haven't changed my tone,

just getting stoned and ain't pretending that I know

You can go swimming though it's only a trickle there

and the floodgates haven't worked for years

I won't be joining you, no, I wish I could go

but I

and I

You can go swimming

fade out...

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Anand Kumar

ST001904@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de; HalfIndy@aol.com

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