River Towns chords by Mark Knopfler

Key: B Major
Time: 4/4


CAPO: 4


Gadd9...................[3x0203]
C/G.....................[332010]
Em7.....................[020000]
CMaj7/G.................[332000]


| G Gadd9 | G | x4

| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | Em7 CMaj7/G |
| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | G |

  G
I came in three days early
         C/G
To meet my boat
  G            Gadd9
It ain't the life of Riley
     Em7     C/G
But it's keeping me afloat


   G
It's quiet over Christmas
            C/G
If you got no place to go
  G        Gadd9
I got my home from river rats
  Em7      CMaj7/G G Gadd9 G
The only home I know


  G
I found myself a flophouse
             C/G
And I hit the streets at nine
 G         Gadd9
Get some grub and drink a beer
 Em7        CMaj7/G
Maybe go down the line


    G
These chips will take your money
          C/G
Shake a young man down
     G      Gadd9
It's the same in every one of these
 Em7     C/G
Sorry river towns


 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 Em7 CMaj7/G
River towns
 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 G
River towns


| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | Em7 C/G |
| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | G |


    G       Gadd9
Well I picked me up a bottle
  G        CMaj7/G
To take back to the room
    G         Gadd9
Then I saw a young girl standing
   Em7       C/G
In a doorway in the gloom


   G       Gadd9
We'd hardly started talking
  G       C/G
The old scenario
      G       Gadd9
And I just let her work me over
   Em7   C/G
Down by the Ohio


 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 Em7 C/G
River towns
 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 G
River towns


| G Gadd9 | G | x4

| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | Em7 C/G |
| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | G |


    G
When I asked her if she'd like to stay
              C/G
She was down my stairs so quick
    G
I never asked what got her started
     Em7     C/G
With the sorry river tricks


   G       Gadd9
So I get the bottle open
   G         C/G
But something?s hit a nerve
     G       Gadd9
And I'm looking in the mirror
    Em7      CMaj7/G
At the face that I deserve



 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 Em7 C/G
River towns
 G      Gadd9
River towns
 G         C/G
Sorry river towns
 G      Gadd9 G
River towns


| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | Em7 C/G |
| G Gadd9 | G C/G | G Gadd9 | G |