Kunci: G minor•
Verse 1
Gm
The rock is gonna fall on us,
D
And he ran to his mother,
Eb
the fear dark in his heart
Gm
And he told her of the vision
F
that he was sure he'd seen
D
She said: "Go back to sleep son,
Eb
D
Gm
you're having a bad dream!"
Verse 2
Gm
Bb
Silly child
Everybody knows the rock
leans over the town
F
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
Eb
Remember Chicken Little said
the sky was falling down
D
Well nothing ever came of that,
the world still whirls around
Eb
Gm
Verse 3
"The rock is gonna fall on us,"
F
he stood and told the class
D
The professor put his chalk down
Eb
and peered out through his glasses
Gm
But he went on and said; "I've seen it,
D
If it doesn't fall this year
Eb
D
Gm
then very soon it will!"
Verse 4
Gm
Crazy boy
Bb
Everybody knows the rock
leans over the town
F
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
Eb
We've more important studies
than your fantasies and fears
D
You know that rock's been
Verse 5
perched up there
Eb
Gm
for a hundred thousand years
"The rock is gonna fall on us."
D
"I believe that we can stop it but
Eb
the time is getting late
Gm
You see I've done all the research
F
my plans are all complete."
Verse 6
D
He was showing them contingencies
Eb
D
Gm
when they showed him to the street
Just a madman
Verse 7
the rock
leans over the town
F
Everybody knows that it won't
tumble to the ground
Eb
Everybody knows of those
who say the end is near
D
Everybody knows that life goes on as
Gm
Bb
Cm
Verse 8
He went up on the mountain
Bb
beside the giant stone
F
They knew he was insane so
Cm
He'd given up enlisting help for
F
He spent his days devising ways
Gm
to stop the rock himself
Verse 9
Cm
One night while he was working building
F
D
The ground began to rumble the rock
D
"The rock is gonna fall on us! Run
F
or you'll all be crushed!"
D
And indeed the rock was moving,
D
He ran
Verse 10
Gm
under it with one last hope
Eb
D
Gm
the rock came to a stop
The people ran into the street
F
but by then all was still
D
The rock seemed where it always
Eb
was or where it always will be
Gm
When someone asked where
Verse 11
Gm
he had
F
gone they said: "Oh he was daft.
D
Who cares about that crazy fool."
Eb
D
Gm
And then they'd start to laugh
Cm
But high up on the mountain
D
Bb
When the wind is hitting it
Verse 12
F
If you're watching very closely
D
Bb
Gm
The rock slips a little bit
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Gm
Gm
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