Johnny Cash - Don't Go Near The Water: Guitar Chords

Chorus:
D#
Don't go near the water children,
                                A#
see the fish all dead upon the shore.
D#
Don't go near the water,
           F                     A#
cause the water isn't water any-more.

          A#
From the fountains in the mountains
                         F                  A#
comes the water running cool and clear and blue.
        A#
And it comes down from the hills
                         F                  A#
and it goes down to the towns and passes through.

         D#
When it gets down to the cities,
                                   A#
then the water turns into a dirty gray.
It's poisoned and polluted
                     F              A#
by the people as it goes along its way.

Chorus

I took my boy fishin'
to my old favorite fishin' hole.
I had caught many a fish
out of that deep, clear water,
From the time I was a boy like him.
After we'd fished a few minutes,
he said: "Did you get a bite yet daddy?"
I said: "I think I got a nibble son."
"Me too", he said.
Then he said:
"Daddy if we catch a fish can we eat it?"
I said: "Well there was a time son.
This water's bad now and
I might not be safe to eat the fish,
but there was a time."

There was a time the air was clean
and you could see forever cross the plains.
The wind was sweet as honey
and no one had ever heard of acid rain.

We're torturin' the earth
and pourin' every kind of evil in the sea.
We violated nature
and our children have to pay the penalty.

Chorus - x2


You can simplify chords by removing barre