Lost On The River 12 chords by The New Basement Tapes

Lost On The River #12
The New Basement Tapes

3/4 Time

| G | Gsus | G | Gsus | G | Gsus | G |

|Gsus    G2         C2     G2      C2        |G  | Gsus | G |
 . . The tears of a lonely man are hidden within
|Gsus      G              Bb           Am
 . . As he moves from one woman to the next
     C/B  C  C/D  |C    | C | C |
 His spir-it grows thin
|C           Cm       Bm        Am        F             D
 . . When he falls in love with one, it's hard but it's true
          C   C/B   Am                     |D         | D | D |
 But it's oh, oh so much harder when that woman is you

|D       G2            C2    G2
 . . The leaves on the trees shake
          C2            |G    | Gsus | G | Gsus |
 When the storm clouds appear
|Gsus     G    Bb         Am
 . . Just as I shake up inside when
   C/B C   C/D |C   | C | C | C |
 I fol-low you  here
 Cm      Bm  Am        F             |D    |
 At your invitation to . come to you, dear
|D         Bm          Em              |C    | C | C |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I got found
|C         Bm          Em                 |C    | C | C |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I didn't drown
|C         Am          Bm           C          |Am  |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I . didn't go down
 |Am        Am   Bm     C      D           G    |Gsus | G | Gsus |
  . . I got lost on the river, . but I got found

   G2            C2       G2
 I looked at the graze of blue
           C2     |G    | Gsus | G |
 Where the light begins
|Gsus            G               Bb        Am
 . . Through the glass where the rays shot through
   C/B  C   C/D |C   | C | C | C |
 Caress-ing your skin
 Cm        Bm  Am        F          D
 Like your invitation to follow you in
|D         Bm          Em              |C    |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I got found
|C         Bm          Em                 |C    |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I didn't drown
|C         Am          Bm           C          |Am    |
 . . I got lost on the river, but I . didn't go down
|Am        Am   Bm     C      D           G    | Gsus | G <> |
 . . I got lost on the river, . but I got found         (rit.)

Charted by Dexex

(My chord charts are intended to show how, as a rhythm guitarist,
I play songs. I don't claim they are the "right" way. They are not
tabs, which notate precisely how a song was played on a recording.)