C               G              C              F
I found no satisfaction in the lies I told to you
C           G               C                Am       
Anything is better than the cumbrance of the truth
     C                    F
So I stole your last gold dollar
C                       F
Took everything I could find
C                G
Went out west to gamble
C                        F
Drink out the trouble in mind

F              C          G
I crossed that deep muddy water
    C                      F
The last of my dignity and pride
        C                     G              C            G        C
Watched them sink down in the bottom of that eastern continental divide

[chorus]
      F                  C                                        F
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
                        C                            G
A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
      F             C                            G
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
  F                      C                           G        C
I never meant to hit the bottom of that eastern continental divide

[verse]
  C                    G
I thought I'd make our fortune
     C                        F
Make something outta nothing again
     C                  G
Like I did when I first loved you
     C               Am
When I was an honest man
       C                     F
Now my eyes are blacker than burned out tyres
     C                  F
As I walk to the rising sun
C                G
Too far gone for turning around
C                  F
Nothing left to be won

F               C           G
I crossed that great smokey mountain
     C                      F
From Tennessee to South Carolina
C            G              C            G        Am     C
Faded in the bottom of that eastern continental divide

[chorus]
      F                  C                                        F
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
                        C                            G
A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
      F             C                            G
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
F                  C                      G        Am
You never will get over that eastern continental divide
     F            G        F      C
That eastern continental divide