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INTRO: Db Ab Db Ab Db Ab Ebsus4 Ab
VERSE ONE:
Db Ab
Blue water
Db Ab
Black bible
Ebsus4 Ab
Old river
Db Ab
Come quietly
Db Ab
Just asking
Db Ab
A glass of water
Ebsus4 Ab
They don't know me
Ab Fm
Don't try me
PRE-CHORUS:
Fm Eb Ab Ab/C Db
Nobody gonna pick me up
Fm Eb
I'm falling down
Ab Ab/C Db
And I'm 5th Street. Bound
Fm Eb Ab Ab/C Db
Now nobody wanna fill me up
Fm Eb
I've fallen down
Ab Ab/C Db
None of my friends around
CHORUS:
Eb Ab
Seen it on the news
Eb Ab
Looked like me and you
Db Ab
Did they hear me calling
VERSE TWO:
Db Ab
Blue water
Db Ab
Black rider
Ebsus4 Ab
Keep on rolling
Db Ab
Keep on riding
Db Ab
Old silver
Db Ab
Old Tar River
Ebsus4 Ab
Keep running
Db Ab
Black water
Db Ab
Old river
Db Ab
That old Tar River
Ebsus4 Ab
Just keeps rising
Fm
Inside me
PRE-CHORUS:
Eb Ab Ab/C Db
Nobody gonna pick me up
Fm Eb Ab
I'm falling down
Ab Ab/C Db Eb
And I'm 5th Street. Bound
CHORUS:
Ab
Seen it on the news
Eb Ab
Some never seem to lose
Eb
They say, the rest are fallen
Ab
I seen it on the news
Eb Ab
It wasn't mine to lose
Ab
Do they hear me calling
BRIDGE:
Db Ab
(Heavy this leans inside me)
Db
Keep Rising
Ab
(The river seethes)
Db Ab
(Parting the ground beneath me)
Ebsus4 Ab
Keep Rising
Ab
(Just like the sea)
Db
Oh, Tar River
Db Ab
(Watching it washing over)
Db
Tar River
Db Ab
(The broken reeds)
Ab Db
It grows inside me
Db Ab
(Gambling the rushing water)
OUTRO:
Ebsus4 Ab
Keeps on running (Over me)
Db Ab
Keeps rising (Over me)
Db Ab Db
Keeps rising (Over me)
Ab
(Over me)
Ebsus4 Ab
Keeps rising
Ab
Keep rising
Song History
Last Updated: September 10, 2025