When These Mountains Were The Seashore Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays452

When These Mountains Were The Seashore by Hawksley Workman is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Am, Em and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			

           G 
when these mountains were the seashore 
           C                   Am 
when this desert was the ocean floor 
         G                            Em 
we would swim beneath the star filled sky 
        C                        G  D  G 
we were lovely fish alone in the night 

before the cities met the heavens 
i mean way, way, way back before then 
we would sing as if it were a prayer 
we were lovely fish who dreamed to dare 


C      G           D            G 
before clocks kept track of the time 
     C        G          D        G 
when day lead gracefully into the night 
C                 G        C          Em 
before two simple fish who dreamed to fly 
C                             D          Em  D  G  
created their sadness and new reasons to cry 

when these mountains were the seashore 
when this desert was the ocean floor 
you and i were not born yet 
it's too long ago now even to forget 

when the blue sky found it's courage 
to love and raise and nourish 
back when life was simply meant to be 
our love and care alone in the sea 

before clocks kept track of the time 
when day lead gracefully into the night 
before two fish that dreamed to fly 
got suspicious of a miracle 
and asked themselves why 

when we looked up through the water 
at time and space and wondered 
what it might be like to live up there 
to leave our fins and gills for the air 


before clocks kept track of the time 
before the poems began to rhyme 
before two simple fish that learned to cry 
got suspicious of their love and asked each other why 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

--
Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante