Riverside Hotel Acoustic chords by Anna Tivel

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC

Verse 1:
C majorC        FF         G+G         C majorC
 Monday morning sidewalk man, sits back to watch the show
  C majorC       FF        G+G     C majorC
The rebar and the wet cement, transistor radio
  A minorAm         G+G      C majorC           FF
He takes a pull from a paper bag, across the street on an old park bench
    C majorC   E minor 7Em7    Am7Am7           FF        C majorC
Oh, the big machines and rolled blueprints, stir something in his soul

Verse 2:
C majorC        FF          G+G      C majorC
 A augmentedA memory comes winding through the ruin of his mind
  C majorC        FF        G+G         C majorC
The hardhats and the heavy boots, the nail gun’s ringing whine
 A minorAm          G+G        C majorC        FF
A augmentedA jungle with the same sharp sound, his brothers falling all around
     C majorC     E minor 7Em7     Am7Am7         FF       C majorC
Oh, they built them up, just to tear them down, and left him half alive

Chorus:
FF             C majorC    FF                 G+G
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
    C majorC                 FF
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
    C majorC        G+G       C majorC
just to watch a building rise up in the rain

Instrumental:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC x2

Verse 3:
  C majorC          FF         G+G       C majorC
He waits each day till evening falls, the men all drive away
  C majorC       FF        G+G       C majorC
The echo of their hammers linger, voices slowly fade
  A minorAm        G+G         C majorC       FF
The lights along the path come on, the scaffolding a skeleton
    C majorC     E minor 7Em7     Am7Am7       FF      C majorC
All the things he dreamed and then forgot, the promises he made

Chorus:
FF             C majorC    FF                 G+G
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
    C majorC                 FF
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
    C majorC        G+G       A minorAm
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
    C majorC        G+G       C majorC
just to watch a building rise up in the rain

Bridge:
    FF                C majorC       FF               G+G
And the moon shines on the river like a dream, and he smokes a cigarette and falls asleep
    C majorC                 FF
And the wind it wanders slow through empty rooms without their walls
   C majorC        G+G     C majorC
And a silence settles over everything

Instrumental:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC x2

Verse 4:
  C majorC         FF      G+G      C majorC
And from the ground it rises up, a riverside hotel
  C majorC        FF          G+G      C majorC
The sidewalk man, he comes to watch near every day until
  A minorAm         G+G         C majorC      FF
The ribbon cut and the curtains hung, the reservations filled and gone
    C majorC   E minor 7Em7    Am7Am7      FF        C majorC
And the owner tells him move along, go linger somewhere else

Chorus:
FF             C majorC    FF                 G+G
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
    C majorC                 FF
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
    C majorC        G+G       A minorAm
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
    C majorC        G+G       C majorC
just to watch a building rise up in the rain