IOWA (Dar Williams)
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[Actually in Bb; capo 3.]

G    D    Em    C    G    D    G - C  G    G
[intro]

     G            D       Em              C
I've never had a way with women, but the hills of Iowa
G          D            G  - C    G
  make me wish that I could
         G              D            Em            C
And I've never found a way to say I love you, but if the chance
  G          D      G - C    G    G
came by, oh I, I would

         Em           Em            C             G
But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother
          Am               Am              D          D
We don't like to make our passions other people's concern
       G            D            Em              C
And we walk in the world of safe people, and at night we walk
   G       D         G - C    G
into our houses and burn

  G   D   Em     C      G    D   G - C   G
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
  G   D   Em     C      G    D   G - C   G   G
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
 G   G
[one extra measure]

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the
  lines and stray from the light
But I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a
  great and gruesome height

So I asked a friend about it on a bad day, her husband had just
  left her; she sat down on the chair he'd left behind
She said, "What is love, where did it get me?  Whoever thought of
  love is no friend of mine."

Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa

G   D   Em   C     G   D   G - C   G   G   G   G
[instrumental]

Once I had everything, I gave it up for the shoulder of your
  driveway and the words I've never felt
And so for you, I came this far across the tracks, ten miles above the
  limit and with no seat belt, and I'd do it again

       Em           Em                 C                    G
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion
       Am             Am                D                D
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
C             C             G  -  D/F#     Em 
  You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
     C          Am          D    D    D    D
And you were not thinking of me

Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
[one extra measure]
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa
Iowa-a, Iowa, oh-oh-oh, oh, I-Iowa



- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/