WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Marissa Nadler - Bessie Did You Make It Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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In 1928 Glen and Bessie met their fate
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From Twin Falls down the Colorado
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In a handmade canoe, what happened to these two
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Is up to who you ask but full of sorrow
[Verse 2]
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It took twenty-six full days to find the heart of the maze
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Deep in the canyon they were swallowed
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He dragged his new wife through his treacherous life
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For cheap thrills he took their tomorrows
[Chorus]
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Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
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Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones?
[Verse 3]
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They were last seen alive by Emery Kolb
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Who lived alone in the canyon
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He put ‘em up for the night, warmed ‘em up by the stove
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Saying: At least let me save your companion
[Verse 4]
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The years flew by and Kolb passed on
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They found some bones in his boathouse
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A bullet in the skull from another dawn
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Under the piles of his photos
[Chorus]
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Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
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Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones?
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Someone else bones?
[Bridge]
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This boat looks like a coffin and the water is strong
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If you go, if you go, you are gone gone gone
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If you go you are gone, gone, gone
[Verse 5]
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Fifty years later the tale turned to legend
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A woman claimed to be Bess for a second
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By the fire, she said without smiling
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I'm Bessie, I killed him, I was simply surviving
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I'm Bessie, I killed him, I was simply surviving