Tonalità: G minor
Verse 1
Em
The rock is gonna fall on us,
D
he woke with a start
B
And he ran to his mother,
C
the fear dark in his heart
Em
And he told her of the vision
D
that he was sure he'd seen
B
She said: "Go back to sleep son,
C
B
Em
you're having a bad dream!"
Verse 2
Em
G
Silly child
Everybody knows the rock
leans over the town
D
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
C
Remember Chicken Little said
the sky was falling down
B
Well nothing ever came of that,
the world still whirls around
C
Em
Verse 3
"The rock is gonna fall on us,"
D
he stood and told the class
B
The professor put his chalk down
C
and peered out through his glasses
Em
But he went on and said; "I've seen it,
D
high up on the hill
B
If it doesn't fall this year
C
B
Em
then very soon it will!"
Verse 4
Em
Crazy boy
G
Everybody knows the rock
leans over the town
D
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
C
We've more important studies
than your fantasies and fears
B
You know that rock's been
Verse 5
perched up there
C
Em
for a hundred thousand years
"The rock is gonna fall on us."
D
He told the magistrates
B
"I believe that we can stop it but
C
the time is getting late
Em
You see I've done all the research
D
my plans are all complete."
Verse 6
B
He was showing them contingencies
C
B
Em
when they showed him to the street
Just a madman
G
Everybody knows
Verse 7
the rock
leans over the town
D
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
C
Everybody knows of those
who say the end is near
B
Everybody knows that life goes on as
C
usual round here
Em
G
Am
Verse 8
He went up on the mountain
G
beside the giant stone
D
They knew he was insane so
Em
they left him alone
Am
He'd given up enlisting help for
G
there was no one else
D
He spent his days devising ways
Em
to stop the rock himself
Verse 9
Am
One night while he was working building
G
braces on the ledge
D
B
The ground began to rumble the rock
Em
trembled on the edge
B
"The rock is gonna fall on us! Run
D
or you'll all be crushed!"
B
And indeed the rock was moving,
C
crumbling all to dust
B
He ran
Verse 10
Em
under it with one last hope
D
that he could add a prop
B
And as he disappeared
C
B
Em
the rock came to a stop
The people ran into the street
D
but by then all was still
B
The rock seemed where it always
C
was or where it always will be
Em
When someone asked where
Verse 11
Em
he had
D
gone they said: "Oh he was daft.
B
Who cares about that crazy fool."
C
B
Em
And then they'd start to laugh
Am
But high up on the mountain
B
G
When the wind is hitting it
Verse 12
D
If you're watching very closely
B
G
Em
The rock slips a little bit
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Em
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