Intro Em  B7  Em 
        Em  B7  Em 
 

[Verso 1]

Em 
I'm telling you to explain 
                 B7         Em 
Cause now you're playing my game 
             B7        Em 
If you don't do what I say 
                Am 
I'm gonna throw you 
       B7         Em 
In the river, someday 
 

[Verso 2]

Em 
See me floating down the river 
                B7        Em 
That's where my body does lie 
              B7       Em 
It sure was a cold September 
     C        D           Em   B7 
With blood on everybody's mind 


[Verso 3]

Em      B7          Em 
 See my body on the shoreline 
                B7              Em 
My thoughts are spilling in the stream 
        B7            Em 
Picking strings all together 
    C         D           Em    D 
But everybody knows their scene 
 

[Refrão]

G                         C     D 
 What did they put in the water 
                          G 
That we're drinking every night 
                       Em 
What did they do to the music man 
          C        D                Em 
When they tried to silence him that night 
 

[Verso 4]

Em 
Can you see it in the stars now 
               B7     Em 
That you ain't acting right 
                B7              Em 
Your minds been poisoned by the weather 
    C          D            Em 
The people and all of those lies 

 

[Verso 5]

B7                  Em 
Don't listen to the wind blow 
               B7         Em 
Cause it ain't being very kind 
           B7              Em 
Follow the path of all the others 
   C                   D         Em    D 
So they can have their justice tonight 

 

[Refrão]

G                         C     D 
 What did they put in the water 
                          G 
That we're drinking every night 
                       Em 
What did they do to the music man 
          C        D                Em 
When they tried to silence him that night 

Interlúdio Em  B7  Em 
             Em  B7  Em 
             Em  B7  Em 
             Em  B7  F#m  B7 
             Em  C  B7  F#m  B7 
 

[Ponte]

Em             Bm         C 
 What did they put in the water that night 
      B7   F#m               B7 
Cause he's lying here dead on cold ice 
Em                       C 
 It don't matter what he had to say 
             D                      Em 
Because they already cut him down today 
                        C 
It don't matter what he had to say 
             D                      Em 
Because they already cut him down today 
 

[Refrão]

G                         C     D 
 What did they put in the water 
                          G 
That we're drinking every night 
                       Em 
What did they do to the music man 
          C        D                G 
When they tried to silence him that night 

Final 

                         C     D 
What did they put in the water 
                          G 
That we're drinking every night 
                       Em 
What did they do to the music man 
          C        D                Em 
When they tried to silence him that night 
          C        D                G 
When they tried to silence him that night