Downhill Stuff 
Words and Music by John Denver

from JD John Denver (1979)



(capo up 2 frets)

             G                    D
Blue River Blue, I'd rather be outside
           G  A7               D     G    A7
Here I am inside watching it rain
             G                     D
Blue River Blue, I'd rather be somewhere
           G   A7               D      G   A7
Here I am nowhere watching it rain

D 

  G                     D         
Some people like that downhill stuff
  G                      D
They like it fast and breezy
 G                             D
Some people walk on the other side
      E7               A7
They like it slow and easy
  G                      D
Some people run on a mountain trail
  G                     D
Some like it wild and rough
  G                    D
Some like to fly and some like to sail
     A7                       D
And some like the downhill stuff

         G                  D
There's work in what we practice
 G                     D
Work in the things we say
   G          
Sometimes we work
          D
Just to try to make a living
           E7                     A7
Or we're workin' just to make it pay
   G                            D
Sometimes we're tryin' to work our will
     G                 D
But that won't work anyway
G                      D
I only know that I'm workin' still 
         E7                    A7
Just to get another chance to play

  G                      D
Some people like that downhill stuff
  G                      D
They like it fast and breezy
 G                              D
Some people walk on the other side
      E7                A7
They like it slow and easy
  G                      G
Some people run on a mountain trail
 G                      D
Some like it wild and rough
  G                    D
Some like to fly and some like to sail
 A7                          D
And some like the downhill stuff

       Bm                    G
Keep movin' in a forward direction
        Em7           A7          D
Like a river rollin' down to the sea
         Bm                       G
If you wanna make a diff'rent selection
        E7                   A7
Honey, let yourself go with gravity

  G                       D
Everybody's lookin' for heaven
  G                      D
Everybody's lookin' for home
  G                       D
Everybody's lookin' for higher and higher
      E7                 A7
But nobody wants to be lookin' alone
   G                       D  
Everybody's tryin' to get down to it
   G                    D
Everybody's tryin' to sing
   G                  D
Whatever it is we're all gonna do it
            E7                  A7
'Cause whatever we do we gotta do our own thing

 G                      D
Some people like that downhill stuff
 G                       D
They like it fast and breezy
 G                         D
Some people walk on the other side
      E7               A7
They like it slow and easy
  G                     D
Some people run on a mountain trail
  G                     D
Some like it wild and rough
  G                    D
Some like to fly and some like to sail
     A7                          D
And some like the downhill stuff
A7                     D
I like the downhill stuff
         A7                       D
Let me slide down that downhill stuff
           A7                     D
Oh, honey give me some downhill stuff

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