The River

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


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


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

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


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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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


[Outro]
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Ooh..
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