• Song:

    The Rope

  • Artist:

    The Emerson Letters

It is played a half step down I think, but I play it in standard most of the time.

Am            G            F
What good is a pen that will not write
            C            F
what good is a       promise left unkept
Am            G            F            
what good is an open evening sky
            C            F
if all the       clouds refuse to rain


chorus
Dm                  C      G
I'm not at the end of my rope
      F            G4      G
I'm steady in this ship to sail
Dm                        C      G            
if there's healing in an honest       word
      F            G4      G
if       truth is like a soft kiss
      F            C      G      
then       oh-oh-oh oh lord
      C      Bm      Am            
will this storm pass us over
F            C      G
oh-oh-oh oh lord
      C      Bm      Am
will this storm pass us over
G      F   
halle      lu-u-u-jah

(no chord) so tell me 
Am            G            F
are we not a breath are we not a mist
            C            F
I think that everybody here knows it
            Am            G      F      
so this time,       as the season turns once again
            C                  F
I'm pushing       my soul, against this bitter cold


Chorus

Dm                  C      G
I'm not at the end of my rope
      F            G4      G
I'm steady in this ship to sail
Dm                        C      G            
if there's healing in an honest       word
      F            G4      G
if       truth is like a soft kiss
      F            C      G      
then       oh-oh-oh oh lord
      C      Bm      Am            
will this storm pass us over
F            C      G
oh-oh-oh oh lord
      C      Bm      Am
will this storm pass us over
G      F   
halle      lu-u-u-jah
F            C
hallelu-u-u ja-a-ah (I don't think the c is actually played, but i play it.)
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