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Song title:      The River
Original Album:	 The River

Words and Music by Bruce Springsteen
Copyright © 1979, 1981 Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)
Published by Sony Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Chords:
Em  022000    C    x32010
G   320003    C/B  x20010
D   xx0232    Am   x02210


[play: 4/4| Em | G | D | C C/B | Am | G | C |]




VERSE1:
Chords:
Em 022000    Cadd9  x32030
G  320003    C      x32010
D  xx0232    Am     x01220


  | Em                    | G             | D                   | Cadd9
I   come from down in the   valley where,   mister, when you're   young

     | Em              G  | C               G
They   bring you up to do,  like your daddy done

       | C                                | G            | D    Em
Me and   Mary we met in high school, when   she was just   seventeen

     | Am                                | G                     | C
We'd   drive out of this valley, down to   where the fields were   green




CHORUS1:
Chords:
Em 022000    D xx0232
C  x32010    G 320003


        | Em          | C          | D                   | G
We'd go   down to the   river, and   into the river we'd   dive

    | Em          | C        | D   C |
Oh,   down to the   river we'd ri__ide





VERSE2:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010
G  320003    Am x01220
D  xx0232


     | Em         | G             | D                    | C
Then   I got Mary   pregnant, and   man that was all she   wrote

    | Em                | G                       | C                   | G
And   for my nineteenth   birthday, I got a union   card, and a wedding   coat

   | C                                    | G            | D      | Em
We   went down to the courthouse, and the   judge put it   all to   rest

   | Am                                             | G                   | C
No   wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle, no   flowers, no wedding   dress




CHORUS2:
Chords:
Em 022000    D xx0232
C  x32010    G 320003


                   | Em          | C         | D                   | G
That night we went   down to the   river and   into the river we'd   dive

    | Em          | C        | D   C |
Oh,   down to the   river we'd ri__ide



[Harmonica SOLO over VERSE chords:]

4/4| Em | G | D | C 

   | Em | G | C | G 

   | C  | G | D | Em | Am | G | C |]




VERSE3:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010
G  320003    Am x01220
D  xx0232


  | Em                    | G                  | D                | C
I   got a job working con - struction, for the   Johnstown Compan - y

    | Em                      | G                | C                   | G
But   lately there ain't been   much work, on ac - count of the econom - y

     | C
Now,   all them things that seemed so important,

                   | G              | D        | Em
Well, mister, they   vanished right   into the   air

           | Am 
Now I just   act like I don't remember;

     | G                   | C
Mary   acts like she don't   care




BRIDGE:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010
G  320003    Am x01220
D  xx0232


         | Em                     | G
But I re - member us riding in my   brother's car,

         | D                       | C
Her body   tan and wet down at the   reservoir

   | Em                      | G
At   night on them banks I'd   lie awake,

             | C                       | G
and pull her   close just to feel each   breath she'd take

          | C                     | Em             | G        | D      | Em
Now those   memories come back to   haunt me, they   haunt me   like a   curse

     | Am                                    | G               | C
Is a   dream a lie if it don't come true, or   is it something   worse?




CHORUS3:
Chords:
Em 022000    D xx0232
C  x32010    G 320003


              | Em          | G               | D                 G
That sends me   down to the   river, though I   know the river is dry

              | Em          | C        | D     | C
That sends me   down to the   river to - night

| Em          | C         | D        | G
  Down to the   river, my   baby and   I,

    | Em          | C        | D    | C
Oh,   down to the   river we   ride




CODA:
Chords:
Em 022000    D xx0232
C  x32010    G 320003


| Em  C   D   G   | Em  C   D   C
  Ooh ooh ooh ooh   ooh ooh ooh ooh


[repeat]

[end on C]