This song can be played in two ways, either is fine. I am not sure which is
the preferred method of Paul Kelly himself, I'm sure I'll never find out
but that doesn't really matter. I will show what I believe to be the
chord progression in the open position and then explain how I play the song
with a capo on the 5th fret.
There are only 4 chords to the song which makes it a nice eay song to
play and sing to.
Anyway Here we go.
(you'll have to listen to the song for the timing, but it should be easy to
pick up.)
Everything's Turning To White
By Paul Kelly
Intro
C F C (Pk uses quick changes to dramatise the effect I'll write this
as
C F C
to show that in the song)
Verse 1
C F C
Late on a Friday my husband went up to the mountains with 3 friends
C F C
They took provisions and bottles of bourbon to last them all through the
weekend
Am C Am F
One hundred miles they drove just to fish in a stream
F C F G C C F C C/B
C
There's so much water so close to home
Verse 2 (Same Chord Progression)
When they arrived it was cold and dark, they set up they're camp quickly
Warmed up with whisky they walked to the river where the water flowed
past
darkly
In the moonlight they saw the body, of a girl floating face down
There's so much water so close to home
Chorus 1
Bass String run into the chorus A B C F (the individual notes)
F C
When he holds me know I'm pretending
F G
I feel like i'm frozen inside
F C F C
And behind my eyes, my daily disguise
F G C C F C
Everything's turning to white
Verse 3 (same)
It was too hard to tell how long she's been dead
The river was that close to freezing
But one things for sure, the girl hadn't died very well to judge from the
bruising
They stood there above her all thinking, the same thoughts at the same
time
There's so much water so close to home
Verse 4 Same as before but first 3 lines spoken not sung
So here's what they did, they carried her downstream from their fishing,
between two smooth rocks they gently wedges her
After all they had come a long way, it was late, and the girl would keep,
she was going nowhere
They stayed up there fishing for two days, they reported it on Sunday
when
they came back down
There's so much water so close to home
Chorus 2 Same as before
Verse 5
The newspapers said the girl had been stragled to death, and also
molested
On the day of the funeral, the radio reported that a young man had been
arrested
I went to the service a stranger, I drove passed the pake out of town
There's so much water, So close to home
Chorus 3
Same as before but drawn out to end the song.
** NOTES : **
I hope you can understand the way I have written this and I think it's
fairly accurate.
To make the sound more like the way PK playes the tune there are little
bass runs when changing between chords. All these are are simple
progression changes mainly on the root notes of each chord, all of which
PK
uses in heaps of his songs. Just fool around with them till you find a
nice
sounding note run for each chord progression.
Well now onto the 2nd way to play this tune. I have just started using
this
way since I got a new capo(my old one was cheap crap).
Anyhow without boring you with all changes and lyrics again i'll just
show
you the chords.
With :
instead of C use a open G shape
instead of F use and open C shape
Instead of Am use Em
Instead of G use D
pretty simple stuff
I find the quick chord changes and bass string runs simpler playing it
this
way.
However you can suit yourself.