Biography:
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian indie folk band which formed in 2003 in Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada. The band began with Tony Dekker (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Erik Arneson (banjo, guitar, harmonium), Bret Higgens (bass), Julie Fader (keyboards, vocals) and Greg Millson (drums). Julie Fader subsequently left, and Miranda Mulholland, on violin and backing vocals, joined.
Fifty-five years ago, Marilyn Bell took a plunge and traversed Lake Ontario.
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Other songs:
- Pulling On A Line
- Your Rocky Spine
- Backstage With The Modern Dancers
- Changing Colours
- Concrete Heart
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Everything Is Moving So Fast
- Great Lake Swimmers
- I Am Part Of A Large Family
- I Became Awake
- I Could Be Nothing
- I Will Never See The Sun
- Imaginary Bars
- Lets Trade Skins
- Moving Pictures Silent Films
- Moving Shaking
- New Wild Everywhere
- On The Water
- Palmistry
- Passenger Song
- Rivers Edge
- See You On The Moon
- She Comes To Me In Dreams
- Song For The Angels
- Stealing Tomorrow
- Still
- The Great Exhale
- The Man With No Skin
- There Is A Light
- Think That You Might Be Wrong
- This Is Not Like Home
- Three Days At Sea Three Lost Years
- To Leave It Behind
- Unison Falling Into Harmony
- Various Stages
- When It Flows
- Where In The World Are You
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Capo on SEVENTH FRET
Chords used:
C - x32010
G - 32000x (sometimes 32003x - just listen for it)
Gadd4/B - x2001x (abbreviated as G/B)
Am7 - x02010
F - 133211
C7 - x32310
*After every Am7 chord, hit the D note (third fret, B string) and then walk the
bass down from A (open A string) to G (third fret, low E) into the F chord.
(Intro bounces between C and G, then sits on G for all eternity)
C G
When we were greened and young as shoots
C G/B Am7
The world took off beneath our boots
F G
Oh we were picked when we were young
C G.....
Gentle words and modesty
C G
When we turned towards the tide
C G/B Am7
Choirs screamed in their delight
F G
Oh I am ripe and ready now
C G/B Am7
My heart is heavy, it's going to fall
F G C C7
Out of my body
F G
Unto love, unto love
C G/B Am7
Oh my heart is heavy, it's going to fall
F G C....
Out of my body
C G
Would have died without
C G/B Am7
Your gardens of eternal life
F G C.....
That you kept so well, kept so well
C G
Could have lived without
C G/B Am7
The fall into the tragedy
F G
But I'm not Adam, and you're not Eve
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C C7
When they were told, leave it behind
F G
Leave it behind, it behind
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C....
When they were told, leave it behind
(Interlude)
C G
C G/B Am7
F G C C7
F G
Leave it behind, it behind
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C.....
When they were told, leave it behind
(Outro bounces between C and G, and ends on C)
Chords used:
C - x32010
G - 32000x (sometimes 32003x - just listen for it)
Gadd4/B - x2001x (abbreviated as G/B)
Am7 - x02010
F - 133211
C7 - x32310
*After every Am7 chord, hit the D note (third fret, B string) and then walk the
bass down from A (open A string) to G (third fret, low E) into the F chord.
(Intro bounces between C and G, then sits on G for all eternity)
C G
When we were greened and young as shoots
C G/B Am7
The world took off beneath our boots
F G
Oh we were picked when we were young
C G.....
Gentle words and modesty
C G
When we turned towards the tide
C G/B Am7
Choirs screamed in their delight
F G
Oh I am ripe and ready now
C G/B Am7
My heart is heavy, it's going to fall
F G C C7
Out of my body
F G
Unto love, unto love
C G/B Am7
Oh my heart is heavy, it's going to fall
F G C....
Out of my body
C G
Would have died without
C G/B Am7
Your gardens of eternal life
F G C.....
That you kept so well, kept so well
C G
Could have lived without
C G/B Am7
The fall into the tragedy
F G
But I'm not Adam, and you're not Eve
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C C7
When they were told, leave it behind
F G
Leave it behind, it behind
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C....
When they were told, leave it behind
(Interlude)
C G
C G/B Am7
F G C C7
F G
Leave it behind, it behind
C G/B Am7
They were brave enough to leave
F G C.....
When they were told, leave it behind
(Outro bounces between C and G, and ends on C)
Green Valley
Greenhorns
Greenskeepers
Greensky Bluegra (...)
Greenwood