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Hold Back The River

James Bay

Chords used in this song: C, D, Em, G, Am
CChord: C
DChord: D
EmChord: Em
GChord: G
AmChord: Am

Capo X

[Intro]
Em  G  C  G  C  G  D


[Verse]
Em        G        C       G
Tried to keep you close to me,
     C        G         D
but life got in between
Em          G        C       G
Tried to square not being there
     C         G              D
but think that I should have been


[Chorus]
C
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
G
Hold back the river, so I
C
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Em  G


[Verse]
Em       G     C       G
Once upon a different life
     C       G               D
We rode our bikes into the sky
Em        G        C       G
But now we call against the tide
       C       G                D
Those distant days are flashing by


[Chorus]
C
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
C
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Em  G  C  G  C  G  D


[Bridge]
G                                      C
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other
G                                      C
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
C
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
C
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Outro]
G                                      C
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other
G                                      C
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other

Em  G  C  G  C  G  D
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