Boatman by James Taylor Lyric and Guitar Chords

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If you are looking for Boatman guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Boatman by James Taylor using guitar or guitar.
This song by James Taylor can also be played by that instruments.
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Boatman guitar chords has rhythm and included in Hourglass (1997) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Boatman by James Taylor Guitar Chords


[VERSE 1]
[D(9)]Hearts were exploding around us as
we drifted sout[D/F#]h down the bay.[G(9)]
The gray up above and gray down below
left us with [D/F#]nothing to say.
So we [D(9)]drifted along in silence
till the t[D/F#]ickle of life tr[G(9)]ickled in.
And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand,
we were catch[D/F#]ing fire again.


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

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


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


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

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


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

If you want to learn James Taylor Boatman guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Boatman. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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