River chords by Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
   G+G      G/BG/B
The river is my savior
      C majorC       G+G
Cause she used to be a cloud
    G+G         G/BG/B
She's happy just to lay there
     Dsus4Dsus4      D MajorD
When she used to be so proud
   G+G       G/BG/B     C majorC         G+G
And even when she dries up a thousand years from now
   G+G      E minorEm      D MajorD         G+G
I'll lay myself beside her and call her name out loud

Verse 2:
   G+G      G/BG/B
The river is my savior
     C majorC       G+G
The only one I'll ever need
     G+G          G/BG/B
Wash my head when I've been sinning
     Dsus4Dsus4        D MajorD
Wash my knuckles when they bleed
  G+G        G/BG/B
Protect me from my neighbor
      C majorC      G+G
All this jealousy and greed
      G+G     E minorEm
Take the body to the delta
     D MajorD       G+G
Hide the weapon in the weeds

Chorus:
       Am7Am7     C majorC
But now I'm tired and a little bit confused
         G+G           D MajorD
Regarding what I meant to do and what I did
       Am7Am7      C majorC
The men I've hired they all seem to be afraid of me
   G+G                 D MajorD
They turn their eyes away from me like kids

Verse 3:
   G+G       G/BG/B
The river hears my secrets
      C majorC      G+G
Things I cannot tell a soul
      G+G         G/BG/B
Like the children that I've orphaned
     Dsus4Dsus4     D MajorD
And the fortune that I stole
   G+G          G/BG/B
The neighbor who asked questions
     C majorC        G+G
Until he washed up on the shore
     G+G         E minorEm
But I've done the law some favors
  D MajorD       G+G
So nobody has to know

Chorus:
       Am7Am7     C majorC
Now I'm tired and I just can't get to sleep
       G+G                 D MajorD
I've been a wolf among these sheep for all my life
      Am7Am7    C majorC
The lake of fire it consumes me in my dreams
      G+G               D MajorD
And last night I woke up screaming at my wife

Verse 4:
   G+G      G/BG/B
The river is my savior
    C majorC       G+G
She's running to the sea
     G+G     G/BG/B
And to reach her destination
    Dsus4Dsus4     D MajorD
Is to simply cease to be
    G+G         G/BG/B
And running until you're nothing
     C majorC       G+G
Sounds a lot like being free
     G+G        E minorEm
So I'll lay myself inside her
     D MajorD      G+G
And I'll let her carry me