Hold Back The River chords by James Bay

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 3)

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
  G+G    /    C majorC   G+G
Tried to keep you close to me
  C majorC    G+G  D MajorD /
But life got in between
  G+G   /     C majorC    G+G
Tried to square not being there
   C majorC     G+G      D MajorD  /
But think that I should have been


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

Verse 2:
  G+G    /   C majorC   G+G
Once upon a different life
   C majorC     G+G     D MajorD  /
We rode our bikes into the sky
  G+G     /   C majorC    G+G
But now we crawl against the tide
  C majorC      G+G     D MajorD  /
Those distant days are flashing by


Chorus:
  G+G              G+G
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
  G+G        G+G
Hold back the river so I
  C majorC            C majorC
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
   C majorC         G+G
Hold back the river, hold back


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

Interlude:
 G+G /  C majorC  G+G
Hold oho, oho, oho
  C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
Oho, oho, oho, oho


Bridge:
   G+G      G+G           C majorC
Lonely water, lonely water won't you let us wander
   C majorC
Let us hold each other
    G+G      G+G           C majorC
Lonely water, lonely water won't you let us wander
     C majorC
Let us hold each other


Chorus:
   G+G          G+G
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
    G+G       G+G
Hold back the river so I
    C majorC          C majorC
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
     C majorC         G+G
Hold back the river, hold back


Chorus:
    G+G             G+G
Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
    G+G       G+G
Hold back the river so I
    C majorC         C majorC
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
    C majorC         G+G
Hold back the river, hold back


Bridge:
   G+G      G+G          C majorC
Lonely water, lonely water won't you let us wander
   C majorC
Let us hold each other
    G+G      G+G           C majorC
Lonely water, lonely water won’t you let us wander
    C majorC
Let us hold each other

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