CRD:Slow Surprise Emmylou Harris
        Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:13:25 GMT
        rickl1@ix.netcom.com (rick)
        rec.music.artists.emmylou-harris, alt.guitar.tab




Emmylou Harris       Slow Surprise written by Chris Smither  


Am    G    F     Am    G    F

           C               Am                       
There is a way that subtle changes come to stay 
       F               Am
Barely noticed, hardly known
               C          Am
One day you'll say my situation's locked away 
       F                   Am
But by tomorrow you're all alone 
            C                F              Am
It seems so sudden, but it's not, it's only grown 
       C               G           F                Am
From a seed that long ago was left forgotten in the snow 
C                  F                      Am
And has a way with slow surprises all its own  
Am           C               Am                         
It's hard to show, but like a boulder rollin' slow 
     F                  Am
Or a rumble deep in the ground 
                C             Am
Things whisper low and by the time I really know 
            F                       Am
What's been movin' they've settled down 
C                   F                     Am
Too late to see the way they're shiftin' round 
    C       G                    F           Am
Too late to say there's bound to be another way 
              C        F              Am
It's all been said and done without a sound  

Am G F  Am G F

              C                Am
This comes to me, and now that I begin to see 
         F                      Am
It's not dramatic, it's nothing grand 
          C              Am
I used to be half of the whole of you and me 
            F              Am
Now I'm the limit of all I am 
            C               F           Am
It seems so simple, nothin' much to understand 
           C                   G                 F          Am
You walked out and closed the door, said I don't live here anymore 
C                        F           Am
And now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands 
C                    F           Am
Now nothin's hangin' heavy in my hands
      C           Am
In my hand  in my hands
F                            Am
Nothin's hanging heavy in my hands


The Horse Whisperer [Original Soundtrack]
MCA Records 1998