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