Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Key: D Difficulty: Novice G Em There's a ledend I heard, or so it's been taught. C D Bout Alexander the great and the Gordian knot. G Em Looked it up on the net so that we could recreate it. C D Now the knot we have here is quite complicated. Em It's got closed bends, loop splices, full lines and lashings. G
Maybe we can loosen it with just a little thrashing. Em Square knots, sheep shanks and all kinds of hitches. C D When it comes to constraint it's an embarassment of riches. G Em It's already a knot, so ready or not. C D We're gonna try to untie it though, it's terribly taut. G Em So it won't be for naught, we'll give it all that we've got. C D G To untie the un-untieable knot. Em We don't know what it is, but we know what it's not. G It's not a Gutenburg press or a coffie pot. Em It's not a car or a tractor cause the safe's too small. C D And a fish or a piano wouldn't make sense at all. G Em It's already a knot, so ready or not. C D We're gonna try to untie it though it's terribly taut. G Em So it won't be for naught, we'll give it all that we've got. C D G To untie the un-untieable knot. C D G To untie the un-untieable knot. C D G To untie the un-untieable knot.