Hold Back The River chords by James Bay (Ver. 3)

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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


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

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


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


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


Interlude:
  G  /    C    G
Hold oho, oho, oho
   C      G     D
Oho, oho, oho, oho


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


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


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


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