Verse 

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 


[Refrão]
 
      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 


[Refrão]
 
      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