Drink The River chords by Gabe Lee

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

One, two, three

F C G
F C G

C  F C
Am G C


🎸 Verse :
F       C      G       C F
 If I were a fisherman of hopes and dreams
       C        G    C
I'd buy me a boat and take it out to sea

  Am Em C Em F
E ---------------
B ---------------
G ---------------
D ---------2--3--
A -0--2--3-------
E ---------------
 Am Em   C  Em F     C
  Cuttin' waves
dodging storms

C Am     G           F
   Casting nets down to the ocean floor




🎸 Verse :
 F        C     G      G C F
Worst case we go hungry and blame our luck
    C       G          C
Have a drink, act like we don't care so much

  Am Em C Em F
E ---------------
B ---------------
G ---------------
D ---------2--3--
A -0--2--3-------
E ---------------
 Am    Em   C   Em F    C
  But to keep on swimmin'
castaway

C Am          G        F    C
 Hooked on your own line from just the other day


🎸 Chorus:
 C     F      C    G
And I can't drink the river to dry the land
C F     C         G
  Bury the ocean beneath the sand
C F      C   G
  But I can love you
       Am G/B F
Until the tide
     C  G   F C G C
Pulls me under by and by

F C G C
Am Em C Em F  C
Am  G  C




🎸 Verse :
C F     C           G
   I went searching for a pot of gold
C F      C      G           C
  Dad always said I had a knack for diggin' holes

  Am G C Em F
E ---------------
B ---------------
G ---------------
D ---------2--3--
A -0--2--3-------
E ---------------

Am  G      C  Em F        C
 If faith were a shovel   to any man of means
Am        G       F
Why am I always standing, the dirt up to my knees?




🎸 Verse :
F    C   G       G C F
To Carolina, swift I'll drive
       C        G  C
Edge of the road, sharp as a knife

  Am G C Em F
E ---------------
B ---------------
G ---------------
D ---------2--3--
A -0--2--3-------
E ---------------

 Am   Em    C  Em F           C
Hundred miles an hour
I'm comin' home to you
 Am      G        F        C
Hopin' to make up for all the grief I put you through


🎸 Chorus:
 C     F      C    G
And I can't drink the river to dry the land
C F     C         G
  Bury the ocean beneath the sand
C F      C   G
  But I can love you
       Am G/B F
Until the tide
     C  G   F C G C
Pulls me under by and by
    F C G C
By and by


🎸 Outro:

Am Em C Em F  C
Am7 G  C
Am7 G  F  C