To The Red River chords by Bendigo Fletcher

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Verse 1:

F#m7              E                   Bm
Ride with me now to the Red River
                 A          E    Am7      E
You're growing out your long hair for the fall
E             F#m7            B      E
Swim through the trees, dignity abandoned
Bm                                       E
Stringing up another diploma along hickory wall
G#                                                   F#m                      E              Dsus4 E
We can never remember the tarp that goes between the crusted earth and the eureka floor
                        C#m           F#m             A
Look, all I'm saying is if the rain falls you can rely on me
        A        E        E  D  A
To rely on you more

🎸 Verse 2:

             F#m7
Oh, chimney tops
                   E
Smoking in the half-light
   Bm                                   E
Joshua talking through the old rock window
             A                  Bm     E
Bertram and boot, rolling up a fat one
   Bm                       E                   A             A  Bm7  E
Stoking at the corporate radio bullshit, for real though


🎸 Interlude:

A  Bm7  E
A  E  Em7  D  Bm


🎸 Verse 3:

 E                 B
Copper kettle, liquid gold
        E       A
You hover the fire,
Dm7     A
drink it all
E       Em7                  Em7
        Ecosystem in your hair
A7           B7           D                   A     G  E  A
Showering sunlight, bending through the morning air


🎸 Chorus:

           A                     Bm
I will refrain from laboring to put you
 E                                Bm
Into the words to match your Victorian brain
  E                                              Bm
But your springing up a silent paradoxical attraction
                            E                    A
You are my very own Rachel Carson in a Bronco 1978
  E                                                        F#m                      E
But we can never remember the tarp that goes between the crusted earth and the eureka floor
F#m                                   E                    A                   E
Look I'm all saying is if the rain falls you can rely on me to rely on you more


🎸 Outro:

A  F#m7 A  F#m7 A