The Canyoneers

Am C Am C F C F C F C Am C Am C G Am F C F Am C Am C Am Come listen and I’ll tell a tale of hardy canyoneers C F C That breed of men the river rats who live without the fears F C F C Of common ordinary men whose worries sure are small Am C Am Compared to those who flirt with death within that high grey wall C G Am F What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed? C F Am C He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer Am C Am C F C F C F C Am C Am Am C Am Do you ever wonder what you’d do when all the chips were down C F C If you doubt you’d do what a man would do when danger comes around F C F C Then take the test to prove the case to see if courage calls Am C Am As waves leap thirty feet or more on the trip through Lava Falls C G Am F What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed? C F Am C He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer Am C Am C F C F C F C Am C Am Am C Am At night at rest on a rocky beach he hears a hairy sigh C F C Of the lonely phantom of the gorge whose mournful voices cry F C F C Although we ran the rapids wild and with our lives did pay Am C Am We welcome you, you canyoneers, who come this dismal way C G Am F What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed? C F Am C He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer C G Am F C F Am C C G Am F C F C F C F Am