Rio Grande chords by The Oh Hellos

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
 Em7      G
Somewhere down south of here
      Em7     G  C2
There's a woman with an armload of grass
 D    Em7
Weaving a basket
     D    Em*  A7sus4   C2
That'll float the Rio Grande
    G      C2
She'll send her baby on it
   G      C2  A7sus4
The river running wild and fast
  D     G
To curry the favor
  D      G  C    A7sus4
Of whatever Pharoah owns the land

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

Curled and half asleep
 G
Awake

 Em7

🎸 Verse 2:
 Em7        G
From her mouth, a vineyard
  Em7       G  C2
Of swears and hallelujahs entwined
  D      Em7
A new wine is vinted
  D    Em*   A7sus4   C2
A blend of sweet commandment
    G        C2
Oh, to hell with the semantics
   G       C2 A7sus4
The camel and the cable   confide
   D    G
The eye of a needle
  D   G    C2  A7sus4
Is tall enough to stand inside

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

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

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



Chord Instructions
 Em* xx2033
 A7sus4 x02033
 A7sus4* x02030