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Song title:      Down In The River To Pray
Original Album:	 - (traditional)

Words and Music by Traditional
Copyright © 1977 Stiff Records (UK)
Published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.
The verse repeats 4 times substituting the word "sisters" in VERSE1
with, in turn, the words:

- brothers
- fathers
- mothers
- sinners



VERSE1:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553    G  320003 or 355433
G7  320001 or 353433    F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8


          | C                         | G7                 | C
As I went   down in the river to pray,  studying about that  good old way

   | %                                       | G     F          | C
And  who shall wear the  starry   crown, good  Lord, show me the  way


| G7        | C                      | F            | C
  O sisters,  let's go down, let's go  down, come on  down

| G7        | C             | F                   | C
  O sisters,  let's go down,  down in the river to  pray




VERSEs 2 - 5:
Notes:
Play as for VERSEs 1 and 2.
Repeat and substitute, in turn, "brothers", "fathers", "mothers" and "sinners".




VERSE6:
Notes:
Play as for VERSEs 1 and 2.

Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553    G  320003 or 355433
G7  320001 or 353433    F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8


         | C                         | G7                 | C
As I went  down in the river to pray,  studying about that  good old way

   | %                                    | G     F          | C
And  who shall wear the starry crown, good  Lord, show me the  way