C

[Verse 1]
                                                  F
Her hair was dyed black and she was bending down

Picking something from off the ground
        C
She was seventeen
                             G
And he said, “Oh my god, it’s Kate”
          C                       G
She said “No, I’m the daughter of Kate
           F               C
My name is Martha, who are you?
G                                     C
Ma never told me, never told me about you”


[Interlude]
C    F    G    C


[Verse 2]

He put his big middle-aged hands upon her shoulders
       F
And he looked her in the eyes
                       C
Just like a boy of nineteen would do
                 G
And she was not afraid
                 C        G
No, she was not afraid


[Verse 3]
C
Once upon a time two kids in love, in a car, were flyin’ over mountains
                                                   F
Trying to catch a boat that’d take ‘em up river to home


[Chorus]
                   G   C   G
And they raced the Matapedia
F
Sixty minutes, sixty miles

Thirty minutes, thirty miles

Twenty minutes, twenty miles

Ten, nine, eight
    C          G
And I was not afraid
               C
No, I was not afraid


[Interlude]
C    F    G    C


[Verse 4]

Well, we made the boat with minutes to spare
              F
And we crossed on over to the other side
                   C
Back home, safe and sound
                  G
But I could not slow down
                  C          G
No, I could not slow down
               C
(I could not slow down)


[Chorus]
    F            G   C   G
And we raced the Matapedia
F
Sixty minutes, sixty miles

Thirty minutes, thirty miles

Twenty minutes, twenty miles

Ten, nine, eight
    C             G
But I could not slow down
                  C          G
No, I could not slow down
               C
(I could not slow down)
               G
And I was not afraid
               C        G    C
No, I was not afraid
            G
(I was not afraid)
               C
And I was not afraid