The River

[Intro]
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E

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G|-9--8-9-11-12---------8b--------------8b----|
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[Verse]
  G#m                     B
I come from down in the valley
       F#                   E
Where mister, when you're young
       G#m            
  They bring you up to
  B  E               B
do like your daddy done
        E
Me and Mary we met in high school
       B           F#    G#m
When she was just seventeen
      C#m
We'd drive out of this valley down
     B                     E
to where the fields were green


[Chorus]
         G#m          E    
  We'd go down to the river
     F#                    B
And into the river we'd dive
    G#m          E    
  Oh down to the river
       F#  E
we’d ride


[Verse]
     G#m                B  
  Then I got Mary pregnant
      F#                      E
And man, that was all she wrote
    G#m           B             
  And for my 19th birthday I got
          E                  B
a union card and a wedding coat
    E
We went down to the courthouse
         B           F#       G#m
And the judge put it all to rest
    C#m  
No wedding day smiles,

no walk down the aisle
     B                   E
No flowers, no wedding dress


[Chorus]
                   
  That night we went
  G#m          E
down to the river
    F#                    B
And into the river we'd dive
    G#m          E            F#   E
Oh down to the river we did ride


[Solo]
G#m   B   F#  E | G#m   B   B |
E   E    B  F#   G#m |  C#m  B   E |  E


[Verse]
   G#m                     B      
  I got a job working construction
          F#               E
for the Johnstown Company
     G#m                      B   
  But lately there ain't been much
            E                 B
work on account of the economy
    E  
Now all them things

that seemed so important
              B           
  Well mister they vanished
       F#            G#m
right into the air
           C#m  
Now I just act like

I don't remember
     B                    E
Mary acts like she don't care


[Verse]
         G#m              
  But I remember us riding
         B
in my brother's car
          F#          
  Her body tan and wet
             E
down at the reservoir
    G#m           
  At night on them
            B
banks I'd lie awake
               E           
  And pull her close just to
            B
feel each breath she'd take
           E  
Now those memories

come back to haunt me
      B        F#      G#m
They haunt me like a curse
       C#m  
Is a dream a lie

if it don't come true
   B                E
Or is it something worse


[Chorus]
               G#m          E
That sends me down to the river
           F#                B
Though I know the river is dry
               G#m  
  That sends me down
         E       F#   E
to the river tonight
 G#m          E        F#       B
Down to the river my baby and I
    G#m          E        F#  E
Oh down to the river we ride


[Outro]
G#m E F# B
Ooh..
G#m E E
Ooh..