Rio Grande chords by The Oh Hellos

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
 E minor 7Em7      G+G
Somewhere down south of here
      E minor 7Em7     G+G  C2
There's a woman with an armload of grass
 D MajorD    E minor 7Em7
Weaving a basket
     D MajorD    Em*  A7sus4A7sus4   C2
That'll float the Rio Grande
    G+G      C2
She'll send her baby on it
   G+G      C2  A7sus4A7sus4
The river running wild and fast
  D MajorD     G+G
To curry the favor
  D MajorD      G+G  C majorC    A7sus4A7sus4
Of whatever Pharoah owns the land

🎸 Chorus:
 A7sus4*
A augmentedA seed of an idea
 (Bass G+G - BB - A augmentedA)
Like mustard greens
 (Bass G+G - BB - A augmentedA)
Like newborn fingers

Curled and half asleep
 G+G
Awake

 E minor 7Em7

🎸 Verse 2:
 E minor 7Em7        G+G
From her mouth, a vineyard
  E minor 7Em7       G+G  C2
Of swears and hallelujahs entwined
  D MajorD      E minor 7Em7
A augmentedA new wine is vinted
  D MajorD    Em*   A7sus4A7sus4   C2
A augmentedA blend of sweet commandment
    G+G        C2
Oh, to hell with the semantics
   G+G       C2 A7sus4A7sus4
The camel and the cable   confide
   D MajorD    G+G
The eye of a needle
  D MajorD   G+G    C2  A7sus4A7sus4
Is tall enough to stand inside

🎸 Chorus:
 A7sus4*
A augmentedA seed of an idea
 (Bass G+G - BB - A augmentedA)
Like mustard greens
 (Bass G+G - BB - A augmentedA)
Like newborn fingers

Curled and half asleep
  G+G
Awake with a thunder
   C2  G+G
From underneath
    C2   G+G
Stretch up and reach through
      C2    G+G
The hardest part of me

🎸 Verse 3:
   E minor 7Em7
May all our tinfoil idols
  G+G    C2   D MajorD
Lay crumpled on the ground
     D MajorD    G+G
And our pre-fab Olympus
  D MajorD  G+G    C2
Divided by the thousand
   G+G          C2
Oh, maybe I'm naive for thinking
    G+G      C2    D MajorD
That a mountain so stubborn can move
    D MajorD       E minor 7Em7
But if I'm a mountain moving
     E minor 7Em7    G+G
I think maybe you can be, too


Chord Instructions
 Em* xx2033
 A7sus4A7sus4 x02033
 A7sus4* x02030