Cold River chords by John Hiatt

Chords with lyrics

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

🎸 Verse 1:
G+G
Well he packed up his suitcase
      C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
'Cause the deal gone down
    D MajorD
She was slipping on her stockings
    C majorC         G+G
Lord it made the sweetest sound


🎸 Verse 2:
G+G
There was a baby in the reeds
     C majorC    G+G    D MajorD
Along the river outside of town
   D MajorD
As he wound his pocket watch
      C majorC        G+G
To set time spinnin' 'em all around

🎸 Verse 3:
G+G
Wasn't long they'd be forgetting
     C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
This old rainy Texas day
    D MajorD
Little fella wasn't meant
       C majorC    G+G
For this old world anyway


🎸 Verse 4:
G+G
Gambling and whoring
C majorC   G+G     D MajorD
Hiding from plain view
    D MajorD
Tell me which one of us rounders
     C majorC           G+G
Would you trust this poor child to?


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC  G+G    D MajorD G+G
You just roll on cold ri-ver
D MajorD      G+G   C majorC
Wash little Moses down
     E minorEm  D MajorD  G+G E minorEm C majorC  G+G
We've got busi-ness to at-tend to
D MajorD    G+G C majorC
In Chicago town
C majorC G+G  D MajorD   G+G
In Chi-ca-go town

🎸 Verse 5:
G+G
Well they rolled out of Austin
    C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
On some kind of cattle train
      D MajorD
She'd been with him for a year
    C majorC        G+G
Didn't know his second name


🎸 Verse 6:
G+G
He worked the small towns hustling nine ball
  C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
She hooked the truck stops too
     D MajorD
They were trying to make Chicago
      C majorC          G+G
Before the winter come blowing through


🎸 Verse 7:
G+G
Some trucker sprang a leak
    C majorC   G+G    D MajorD
In California they supposed
    D MajorD
Started working Arizona
     C majorC         G+G
Lord she missed the Bloody Rose


🎸 Verse 8:
G+G
They rambled through the southwest
    C majorC     G+G   D MajorD
Making money and making time
     D MajorD
But they never could find no help
   C majorC        G+G
Not a doctor, not that kind


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC  G+G    D MajorD G+G
You just roll on cold ri-ver
D MajorD      G+G   C majorC
Wash little Moses down
     E minorEm  D MajorD  G+G E minorEm C majorC  G+G
We've got busi-ness to at-tend to
D MajorD    G+G C majorC
In Chicago town
C majorC G+G  D MajorD   G+G
In Chi-ca-go town


🎸 Verse 9:
G+G
Some women love their babies
   C majorC   G+G     D MajorD
Some women won't have one
   D MajorD
Some Texas woman found him
  C majorC         G+G
And we're still on the run


🎸 Verse 10:
G+G
The kind of life we're living
   C majorC  G+G    D MajorD
He'd only slow us down
   D MajorD
Ain't good for nothing anyway
   C majorC        G+G
Just rambling town to town


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC  G+G    D MajorD G+G
You just roll on cold ri-ver
D MajorD      G+G   C majorC
Wash little Moses down
     E minorEm  D MajorD  G+G E minorEm C majorC  G+G
We've got busi-ness to at-tend to
D MajorD    G+G C majorC
In Chicago town
C majorC G+G  D MajorD   G+G
In Chi-ca-go town


🎸 Verse 11:
G+G
Well he unpacked his suitcase
  C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
She pulled her stockings down
D MajorD
Dreaming up a pool hall
  C majorC       G+G
And shooting up a round


🎸 Verse 12:
G+G
She thought about tomorrow
     C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
When the money rolled around
D MajorD
That night they slept like babies
C majorC     G+G
In Chicago town