Chords with lyrics
Intro:
E minorEm C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Verse:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
On the banks of the Missouri
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Annie Washed up in the clay
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And they took her to her father
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Told him it was John McCrae
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Now I'm running through the badlands
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Covering my tracks
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Northward toward Dakota
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
With the devil on my back
Chorus:
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
Oh, the river flows
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
To our immortal home
B7B7 E minorEm
Oh Annie, oh my soul
Instrumental:
E minorEm C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Verse:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Well I took her down by the stream side
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
For to make that girl my bride
E minorEm C majorC G+G
But in the fold of her pretty white dress
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Lay her father's bowie knife
E minorEm C majorC G+G
Well she pulled that steel blade on me
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Told me she would take my life
E minorEm C majorC G+G
So I pushed her into the river
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
She went under with the tide
Chorus:
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
Oh, the river flows
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
To our immortal home
B7B7 E minorEm
Oh Annie, oh my soul
Verse:
E minorEm C majorC G+G
I am standing at the gallows
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
And the scaffold it is high
E minorEm C majorC G+G
And the hangman asked my last words
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
Before I'm condemned to die
E minorEm C majorC G+G
So I begged God, "Don't forgive me
G+G C majorC G+G E minorEm
for the trouble I have sown
E minorEm C majorC G+G
for I'll soon see my pretty Annie
G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
in the hell fire down below."
Chorus:
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
Oh, the river flows
A minorAm D MajorD G+G
To our immortal home
B7B7 E minorEm
Oh Annie, oh my soul