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Borders
Kevin McCue and Bruce Diehl
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Chord
Guide |
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32 1 C:
x32010 |
2 1 C/B:
x3x010 |
2 1 Am7:
x02010 |
3 2 1 Am7/G:
3x2010 |
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3211 F:
xx3211 |
3 4 G:
3x0003 |
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Intro: / C - C/B - / Am7 - Am7/G - / F - G - / C - - - /
C (2) F C
There are many kinds of borders that keep people apart
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½) Am7/G (½) F G
There are rivers there are checkpoints, there are walls around the heart
C (2) F C
When I met you down in Mexico, I thought our biggest cross
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½) Am7/G (½) F (½) G (½) C
Would be over into Texas, but it turned out to be us
Chorus:
F
C
F
C
You can go down to your river, wash white linens on your shore
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½) Am7/G (½) F G
You can say that side is your side, and the river is your door
F
C
F
C
I can stand across on my side, I can call for you to come
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½) Am7/G (½) F (½) G (½) C
But we should meet there in the middle, let our borders all go down
Repeat Intro
C (2)
F
C
When we talked of who we were, of our families and friends,
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½) Am7/G (½)
F
G
How the world saw us, where we thought that we might end,
C (2)
F
C
We marked the outline of our borders, showing who we had to be,
C (½)
C/B (½)
Am7 (½)
Am7/G (½)
F (½)
G (½)
C
But we should have formed a river, flowed together to the sea.
Chorus
Repeat Intro
Instrumental Verse
Repeat 1st Verse
Chorus x2 (repeat last line)
Repeat Intro, end on C
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
