Guitar chords with lyrics
Standard Tuning: [capo III]
Chords used:
EADGBe
D: 000232
D6:000432
G: 320003
Intro/verse tab w/chords: (some variation within verses)
D6D6 
G+G
e|---2---2---2---2-----2---2----3---3---3---3-----3---3-|
BB|---3-----3-----3-3-----3------0-----0-----0-0-----0---|
G+G|---4-----------4--------------0-----------0-----------|
D MajorD|-0-----------0----------------0-----------0-----------|
A augmentedA|------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------3-----------3-------------|
Intro: play intro tab x3 (or just play chords)
Verse 1 chords:
D6D6 G+G
High water carried her down stream
D6D6 G+G
She watched the water's living things
D6D6 G+G
She thought, it's not a mound with six planks of wood
D6D6
The cardinal points to hold you up
G*
Or a mountain where a shed self could
Verse 2 chords: (repeat x2)
D6D6 G+G
Feed the roots and honor the tongues of the animals
D6D6 G+G
Drift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pulls
Interlude: play intro tab x3 (or just play chords)
Verse 3: (use verse 1 chords)
Rolled like a felled tree with arms as useless as such
Death's panic came, a calmness stayed, you couldn't do much
Just watch the water chip away at the bank eroding
Cut and crumbling through the spate
Verse 4 chords:
D6D6 G+G
It took a father, it covered his daughter
D6D6 G+G
Took her down, down, down
D6D6
With the glass bottles, books, a tire
G+G D6D6
Collected hair tufts in the weeds
G+G D MajorD
Snagged and wrapped in the peats dammed and trapped
Chorus Chords: (repeat x3)
D MajorD
You said, is this the ceremony?
G+G
I don't know, well I don't mind
The way we all fall in and roll down
D MajorD
Pushed through the veins and trafficked byes
G+G
And when your ears sit underhead is half submerged down below
D MajorD
Pooling all accounts of peace while passed beneath the canopy glow
G+G D MajorD G+G
canopy glow, canopy glow, canopy glow
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'The River' by, a female blues artist from Tennessee, United States. was born in 1957.
