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Song title:      The River Knows Your Name
Original Album:	 Walk On

Words and Music by John Hiatt
Copyright © 1995 Capitol Records Inc
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 5. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
Am  x02210
C   x32010
F   x33211


Acoustic guitar:
  Am      C                         Am      C
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-1-------------------------------|-1-------------------------------|
|-2---0-------0________-----------|-2---0---------------------------|
|-----0---2---2________-----------|-----0---2________________-------|
|---------3-----------------------|---------3________________-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



Acoustic guitar:
          Am                                C
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------1____-------1-0-0-------|---------------------------------|
|-----0---2____-------2-0-0-------|-0---0---------------------------|
|-2---0---2-----------------------|-2---0---2-----------------------|
|-3-------------------------------|---------3-----------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


          F                                             C
|-------------------------1-------|---------------------------------|
|-------------1-----------1---0---|-----1-0-------------------------|
|-----0---2---2-----------2---0---|-----2-0-2-----------0-----------|
|-2-------3---------------3-------|---------0-----------0---2-------|
|---------------------------------|-------------------------3-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


              C
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-1-----1-1-----------------------|---------------------------------|
|-2-----0-0---0-------------------|-0-------------------------------|
|-------------2-------------------|-0-----2-2-----------------------|
|---------------------------------|-------3-3-----------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



VERSE1:
Notes:

Fill1
  Am              F
|-0---------------1---------------|
|-1---------------1---------------|
|-2-----------0---2---------------|
|-2-----------0---3---------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


Chords:
C   x32010    G   320033
Am  022000    F   x33211


      | C              | %
Oh, the river knows your name

       | Am    G              | F
And your tears falling like the rain

   | Am        F           | [Fill1]
All around you suffering and  pain

      | C     F          | C
Oh, the river   knows your name



VERSE2:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320033
Am  022000    F   x33211


      | C             | %
And the river hears you cry

     | Am        G             | F
As the lightning cracks the open sky

      | Am    F          | [Fill1]
As your Momma sings a lulla-by

     | C     F         | C
Oh the river   she knows why



VERSE3:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320033
Am  022000    F   x33211


      | C            | %
Let the river wash you down

          | Am      G            | F
Beneath the surface with a rushing sound

     | Am            F              | [Fill1]
Like a freight train passing through a town

      | C     F        | C
Let the river   wash you down



VERSE4:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320033
Am  022000    F   x33211


      | C         | %
Let the river take away

      | Am                 G           | F
All the words what you and I could never say

     | Am       F            | [Fill1]
In the silence, darling, let us pray

      | C     F            | C
Let the river   take it all away



VERSE5:
Chords:
C   x32010    G   320033
Am  022000    F   x33211


      | C              | %
Oh, the river knows your name

       | Am             G            | F
From the Brazos, to the Wabash, to the Seine

     | Am           F           | [Fill1]
No two journeys are ever quite the same

      | C     F          | C
But the river   knows your name,

      | C     F          | C
Oh, the river   knows your name