Singing Skies And Dancing Waters

Words & Music by John Denver
from I Want To Live (1977)


Unusual chords:
Asus4  :   ||223|
Dsus4  :   |||233
A7sus4 :   ||2|3|


G  D  Bm  F#m  G  D  A  Asus4

D       Dsus4      D          Dsus4
So many years ago, I can't remember now
Em                           Asus4
Someone was waiting for me.
D         Dsus4      D          Dsus4
I had the answers to all of my questions.
Em
Love was so easy to see.
A7sus4        D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4
I didn't know.

D          Dsus4       D               Dsus4
When I was younger I should have known better.
Em                             Asus4
I thought that nothing was new.
D               Dsus4      D          Dsus4
Through all the spaces in all of the changes
    Em
The one I lost sight of was you.
A7sus4        D               A7
I didn't know.     I didn't know.

I could see you in
 G        D        Bm      F#m
Singing skies and dancing waters
 G         D         F#m   G 
Laughing children growing old
Em          D        Bm       F#m
And in the heart and in the spirit
G            D        A      G
And in the Truth when it is told.

D              Dsus4     D        Dsus4
My life became shady and I grew afraid
       Em                        Asus4
And I needed to find my way home.
   D            Dsus4          D               Dsus4
I just couldn't see you. The thought that I'd lost you.
   Em
I never felt so much alone.
A7sus4            D    
Are you still with me?

 D          Dsus4    D             Dsus4
Somehow in reason I lost sight of season
Em                           Asus4
Tides rollin' out rollin' in.
 D           Dsus4         D            Dsus4
Sometimes in evenin' when daylight was leavin'
    Em   
I though I'd never see you again.
A7sus4            D                   A7
Are you still with me? Are you still with me?

I'm with you in
 G        D        Bm      F#m
Singing skies and dancing waters
 G         D         F#m   G 
Laughing children growing old
Em          D        Bm       F#m
And in the heart and in the spirit
G            D        A      G
And in the Truth when it is told.

D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4  Em  A7sus4
Hmmmm......
    D              Dsus4      D            Dsus4
If my faith should falter and I should forsake you
     Em
And find myself turning away.
     A7sus4      D                       A7
Will you still be there? Will you still be there?

I'll be there in
 G        D        Bm      F#m
Singing skies and dancing waters
 G         D         F#m   G 
Laughing children growing old
Em          D        Bm       F#m
And in the heart and in the spirit
G            D        A      G
And in the Truth when it is told.

D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4  D