Elton John - Crazy Water: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Crazy Water" on your guitar with our chord guide. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

     F
On a bench, on the beach
       D#               A#/D
Just before the sun had gone
            F
I tried to reach you
Cm               D
Plain faced and falling fast
Gm			     A#
You looked so vacant like an empty shell
G/B   F/C		       C
Whose life had passed upon the ocean
A#/C F/C  F     A#/F  F
Be- fore light shook the sky
     D#          D# A#/D
Down by the docks I saw
	     F
The masts unfolding
Cm	     D		      Gm
Don't turn away, please understand
		  A#
It's a life and a living
G/B   F/C	
And a way to keep the wolves away
      C			
From hungry hands, from hungry hands

Chorus:
      Dm
Crazy water
F			 F/G F/A  A#    D#/A# A#
Takes my fishing boat on Mon-day morning
	    F/A
Dangerous dreaming
      F				      F/G   F/A      A#
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
         F/A 		A# 		  Gm7	 Gm7/A  A#
Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy  water

Tangled lives, lonely wives
Shoreline widows pray for the souls of missing whalers
Endless nights on an endless sea where nothing lives between us
Just the breakers on the ocean
Separating you and me, ooh, separating you and me

Chorus - x2

Crazy water - x8

In the crazy, crazy water
In the crazy, crazy, crazy water
Crazy, crazy, crazy water - x2


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A

Guitar chord A

A#

Guitar chord A#

C

Guitar chord C

Cm

Guitar chord Cm

D

Guitar chord D

Dm

Guitar chord Dm

D#

Guitar chord D#

F

Guitar chord F

G

Guitar chord G

Gm

Guitar chord Gm

G

Guitar chord G

Gm7

Guitar chord Gm7

B

Guitar chord B

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Crazy Water" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Crazy Water" by Elton John.

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