E5 D5 / / / / / / / / | --0------------- | --5----------- | | --0------------- | --7----------- | | --1------------- | --7----------- | | --2------------- | --7----------- | | --2-----7--6--5- | --5----------- | | --0------------- | -------------- | Verse 1: E5 D5 E5 D5 In the easy chair with my boots on E5 D5 E5 D5 Melted whiskey in my hand E5 D5 E5 D5 I couldn't have been asleep for more than three hours E5 D5 E5 D5 Time to go to work again E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 Once more I beat the sunrise E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 And there's a dark breeze at my door E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 Raise the water from the well up to my face E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 How could a man like me be poor? Chorus: E5 A5 G5 As long as there's water F#5 F5 E5 E5 D5 Chilly wet water A5 G5 F#5 F5 E5 E5 D5 Gimme some of that cool, cool water Verse 2: Well, my horse's eyes are glassy He breathed the city in his lungs last night I lead his natural body To the trough to regain his might Red rooster crow them blues here That Old Blue he round the bull And the mornin's crying rays of sunrise It hasn't rained for three weeks full (Chorus) (Solo) Verse 3: Venus light is rising I lay my buckets inside the shed And there's a man I see - a stranger Leaning on the gate outside my fence Said "I'm riding out from the city Where they started holding water back last night I was hoping I could get a drink from your well Before I ride on to another city tonight" Before I ride on to another city tonight Before I ride on to another city tonight E5 D5 E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 Chilly well, chilly well, chilly water Cool well, chilly well water Before I ride on Ending: E5 > F#5 > G5 > A5 (1 measure per chord) A5 > G5 > F#5 F5 E5 (as in the chorus)
