Chords with lyrics
Prelude:
A5A5 A minorAm A5A5
There's a body at the bottom of the Ouachita River.
A minorAm
🎸 Verse:
A minorAm A augmentedA
Jack Williams worked a ferry on the Ouachita River line
A minorAm DmDm A minorAm
For five-sixty-five an hour, he hauled them people side to side
DmDm
Our love was a rush like a flood in the spring
A minorAm
Our love was enough 'til the bridge came
A minorAm
🎸 Verse:
A minorAm A minorAm
Jack Williams took to drinking and givin' me black eyes
DmDm A minorAm
Around that time I reckoned Jack wasn't quite my type
DmDm
I could've called the law
DmDm
I could've up and left
E MajorE
But I took some rope and a bag of stones
N.C.
And I tied him up instеad
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Run, river, run
DmDm FF
Cover up what I've donе
A minorAm C majorC G+G DmDm
Carry away what's left of that sinner
A minorAm C majorC
There's secrets in the Arkansas sand
G+G DmDm
Mud on my boots and blood on my hands
Dm* E*
And a body at the bottom of the Ouachita River
A minorAm
🎸 Verse:
A minorAm
Spring turned into summer
A minorAm
And Jack was never found
DmDm A minorAm
I guess the Bradley County Sheriff didn't miss havin' him around
DmDm
Now I walk across that bridge
DmDm
With a big smile on my face
E MajorE
And I throw some yellow roses on Jack Williams' grave
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Run, river, run
DmDm FF
Cover up what I've donе
A minorAm C majorC G+G DmDm
Carry away what's left of that sinner
A minorAm C majorC
There's secrets in the Arkansas sand
G+G DmDm
Mud on my boots and blood on my hands
Dm* E*
And a body at the bottom of the Ouachita River
A minorAm
🎸 Bridge:
DmDm
That bridge did him in in more ways than one
A minorAm
Ten feet of muddy water 'tween Jack and the sun
DmDm
That bridge did him in in more ways than one
E MajorE
Ten feet of muddy water 'tween Jack and the sun
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
Run, river, run
DmDm FF
Cover up what I've donе
A minorAm C majorC G+G DmDm
Carry away what's left of that sinner
A minorAm C majorC
There's secrets in the Arkansas sand
G+G DmDm
Mud on my boots and blood on my hands
Dm* E*
And a body at the bottom of the Ouachita River
A minorAm
Post-🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
There's a body at the bottom of the Ouachita River