James Taylor - Boatman Chords

[VERSE 1]
D(9)
Hearts were exploding around us as
               D/F#            G(9)
we drifted south down the bay.
     Bm7                 E7sus     E7
The gray up above and gray down below
Em7          D/F#           A7sus A7
left us with nothing to say.
      D(9)
So we drifted along in silence
          D/F#            G(9)
till the tickle of life trickled in.
         Bm7               E7sus         E7
And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand,
Em7          D/F#           A7sus A
we were catching fire again.

[CHORUS]
G/D  D       G        D
Oh boatman,  I am the river,
G/D       D       A7sus A   D
I am the mountain and   the sea.
G/D  D        G         D    A/C#
Oh   boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7         E7   Em7  D/F#  G(9)
Can you deliver me?
G(9)       A           D    G/D  D
I would forever run free.

[VERSE 2]
      D(9)
Yeah, we finally caught up with legends,
                 D/F#           G(9)
we were walking along side by side.
     Bm7                   E7sus       E7
We worked out a plan to go out hand in hand,
Em7             D/F#           A7sus A7
the long trail just wasn't that wide.
    D(9)
The water around us was freezing,
        D(9)        D/F#           G(9)
we just laughed and threw ourselves in.
    Bm7                       E7sus         E7
And although we were old, the sting of that cold
Em7           D/F#                A7sus A
pumped up the feeling, here it is again.

[CHORUS]
G/D  D       G        D
Oh boatman,  I am the river,
G/D       D       A7sus A   D
I am the mountain and   the sea.
G/D  D        G           D    A/C#
Oh   boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7         E7   Em7  D/F#  G(9)
Can you deliver me?
G(9)       A           D    G/D  D
I would forever run free.

[BRIDGE]
    A     B7      E    A
Oh, I'm a message in a bottle
A        B7         E    A/E  E
drifting along on a deep blue sea.
A        B           E   A
Waiting for some foreign shore,
A         B/E        A
ready for something to be.

[VERSE 3]
   D(9)
No longer afraid of falling,
           D/F#           G(9)
we cut the strings to the sky.
         Bm7                 E7sus         E7
We found lever ground and we put ourselves down,
Em7            D/F#   A7sus A7
amazing we all didn't die.
   D(9)
We took each moment as given,
              D/F#        G(9)
by second, by second they came.
    Bm7                     E7sus      E7
The ice and the sun and the thundering guns,
Em7            D/F#   A7sus A
good God I was finally sane.

[CHORUS]
G/D  D       G        D
Oh boatman,  I am the river,
G/D       D       A7sus A   D
I am the mountain and   the sea.
G/D  D        G           D    A/C#
Oh   boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7         E7   Em7   A7sus A
Can you deliver me?
G/D  D             G        D
Oh   holy roller,  I am the river,
G/D       D       A7sus A   D
I am the mountain and   the sea.
G/D  D        G           D    A/C#
Oh   boatman, taker and giver,
Bm7         E7   Em7  D/F#  G(9)
Can you deliver me?
G(9)       A        D
I would forever run free.