Secret Of The Waterfall

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

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Chorus

     G  C   G
Down by the waterfall
      G   C          G
Where the waters run so cool
      G  C       G
There no secrets ever fall
     G   C       G
From the lips of the fool

Verse 1

         G   C         G            D
Jeniffer was seventeen the same age as I
    G         C            D           G
She had lived next door to us since we were five
    G      C                 G          D
She knew I loved her dearly, I told her many times
    G        C                  D                 G
And I looked forward to the day that she would be all mine

Verse 2

    G    C                          G                  D
One more year of school we thought, then wedding bells would ring
    G        C                D           G
But the hand of fate has ways of changing everything
  G               C           G           D
I walked upon the two of them down by the waterfall
         G   C           D               G
Jeniffer and Jimmy Jones they saw me not at all

Verse 3

      G     C           G         D
Jimmy Jones was married and had a family
    G               C          D            G
And I just couldn’t understand why they did this to me
     G               C                G               D
Both were scared but all they thought I’d do was tell his wife
      G            C           D                  G
Their faces turned to masks of fear before I took their life

Verse 4

       G       C             G           D
People thought that Jeniffer just up and ran away
      G     C                  D G
Jimmy Jones who disappeared is a mystery today
     G     C              G          D
Many years has passed but bitterly I still recall
    G      C                 D          G
And only I alone know what’s behind the waterfall
Recorded by: The Country Gentlemen (1972), Iron Horse (2020)

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