Matapedia

	  		


Intro C 

verse 1 
                                                  F 
Her hair was dyed black and she was bending down 

Picking something from off the ground 
        C 
She was seventeen 
                             G 
And he said, “Oh my god, it’s Kate” 
          C                       G 
She said “No, I’m the daughter of Kate 
           F               C 
My name is Martha, who are you? 
G                                     C 
Ma never told me, never told me about you” 

Interlude 
C    F    G    C 

verse 2 

He put his big middle-aged hands upon her shoulders 
       F 
And he looked her in the eyes 
                       C 
Just like a boy of nineteen would do 
                 G 
And she was not afraid 
                 C        G 
No, she was not afraid 

verse 3 
C 
Once upon a time two kids in love, in a car, were flyin’ over mountains 
                                                   F 
Trying to catch a boat that’d take ‘em up river to home 
 
                   G   C   G 
And they raced the Matapedia 
F 
Sixty minutes, sixty miles 

Thirty minutes, thirty miles 

Twenty minutes, twenty miles 

Ten, nine, eight 
    C          G 
And I was not afraid 
               C 
No, I was not afraid
 

Interlude 
C    F    G    C 

verse 4 

Well, we made the boat with minutes to spare 
              F 
And we crossed on over to the other side 
                   C 
Back home, safe and sound 
                  G 
But I could not slow down 
                  C          G 
No, I could not slow down 
               C 
(I could not slow down) 

    F            G   C   G 
And we raced the Matapedia 
F 
Sixty minutes, sixty miles 

Thirty minutes, thirty miles 

Twenty minutes, twenty miles 

Ten, nine, eight 
    C             G 
But I could not slow down 
                  C          G 
No, I could not slow down 
               C 
(I could not slow down) 
               G 
And I was not afraid 
               C        G    C 
No, I was not afraid 
            G 
(I was not afraid) 
               C 
And I was not afraid