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Down Down The Deep River chords by Okkervil River

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                  DOWN DOWN THE DEEP RIVER - Okkervil River
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Tabbed by: rdcoons
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuning: standard
Submitter: Linda_from_Sweden

Guitar 1: Capo 4
Guitar 2: No capo (Represented in parentheses)

Intro:
Guitar 1:                  Guitar 2:
Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD x2        Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramBB  Chord diagramF#F#  Chord diagramBB  Chord diagramF#F# x2

Guitar 1 Intro Riff: (relative to capo) x2
    Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramD MajorD
e|--3-0---3---3-0------2-0---2---2-0---------|
Chord diagramBB|--3---3-----3--3-0---3---3-----3---3-------|
Chord diagramG+G|--0---------0--------2---------2-----2-----|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--2---------0--------0---------0-----------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|--3---------2--------0---------0-----------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|------------3------------------------------|

Chord diagramC majorC (Chord diagramE MajorE)                        Chord diagramG+G (Chord diagramBB)              Chord diagramD MajorD (Chord diagramF#F#)
Spit into the center of your hometown, there's leaves in the street,
                      Dsus4(Chord diagramBB)  D(Chord diagramF#F#)  Chord diagramC majorC                     Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4   Chord diagramD MajorD
and there are friends around you now. All the days of your life in a line.
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4   Chord diagramD MajorD
or the way they seemed by 89...
Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
But it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.

Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

Chord diagramC majorC                    Chord diagramG+G
We lie awake at night in a tent and I say,
                   Chord diagramD MajorD                                           Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramC majorC
Tell me about your uncle and his friend because they seem like very bad men.
        Chord diagramG+G                        Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4
Well we want to keep away from them.
Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramC majorC                            Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD
Bend in the road back there, we saw the place they go.
Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G                     Chord diagramD MajorD
Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know
                              Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramC majorC
or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio.
                  Chord diagramG+G                         Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4
Play it again and again it cuts off at the ending though.
 Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend.
                    Chord diagramD MajorD
Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again?
        Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
All the way down the line to where the telephone ends
                                  Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
come on and shout it on down the wire.
Chord diagramC majorC                      Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
And it's not all right.  It's not even close to all right.

Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramG+G
And as the rescue party, the volunteer team, oh (shit),
              Chord diagramD MajorD
they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thing
        Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD                     Chord diagramC majorC
they've seen they're standing all around that tree,
           Chord diagramG+G                         Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
and I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying.

Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD x2

{Sparse Strumming}
Chord diagramC majorC                             Chord diagramG+G
Shivering from the late fall cold,
               Chord diagramD MajorD
I felt like a solid ghost.
                              Chord diagramC majorC
I ran and then I couldn't slow.
           Chord diagramG+G                          Chord diagramD MajorD
My father found me though, my father took me home.
Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramC majorC                           Chord diagramG+G
He said, oh, son, I saw you get knocked down,
          Chord diagramD MajorD
and I ran out I bet your head was spinning.
            Chord diagramC majorC
With that bright pain you stunned,               {resume strumming}
        Chord diagramG+G                              Chord diagramD MajorD               Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4
when you've only just begun to be only just beginning.

Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramC majorC                    Chord diagramG+G
Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears,
               Chord diagramD MajorD                                Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
and all that difficult shit in all those tender years.
          Chord diagramC majorC                               Chord diagramG+G
There was something in the air; something gathered in the air.
          Chord diagramD MajorD
Something singing in the wind.

Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramC majorC                         Chord diagramG+G
I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror.
                   Chord diagramD MajorD
And you'll be all right because I'll be right here.
Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramC majorC
Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere.
   Chord diagramG+G                              Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere.
Chord diagramC majorC                   Chord diagramG+G                         Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4
Though it's not all right. It is still far from all right.
Chord diagramD MajorD                     Chord diagramC majorC
We'll make it into a choice somehow.
        Chord diagramG+G                        Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow.

Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       Chord diagramC majorC                          Chord diagramG+G
We can never go back; we can only remember
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

**YouTube Version**
               Chord diagramC majorC                             Chord diagramG+G
Waking in the dawn with that dream growing dimmer and dimmer.
              Chord diagramD MajorD                                            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4  Chord diagramD MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
             Chord diagramC majorC                                     Chord diagramG+G                                     Chord diagramD MajorD
Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down?
            Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramC majorC                                  Chord diagramG+G                          Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 Chord diagramD MajorD
I wanna know, are we going down the deep river, are we going down? Because I know it's scary, baby.

Intro chords/riff 1 1/2 times.

End on Chord diagramD MajorD (Chord diagramF#F#)

**Album Version**

Intro chords/riff

Maybe they told you 'bout the summer sky,
maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky
or all your friends, all your best, best friends
are gonna gather around your bed at night.
Well that'll make it all right because it is still so far from all right. Oh, kid, I know.

Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
Up the stairs four flights, son; can you feel my heart shiver?
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
Waking in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer.

I said, Are we going down the deep river? Down the deep river?
Why don't you say you still see it, say you remember? Are we going down?
Are we going down the deep river? Because I know it's scary, baby.

End on
Chord diagramD MajorD (Chord diagramF#F#)

Notes:
-If you are playing with the YouTube version, simply follow the **YouTube Version** part.
-If you are playing with the album, skip the **YouTube Version** part and proceed
down to **Album Version**

Guitar 1 Chords:         Guitar 2 Chords:
  Chord diagramE MajorE     022100             Chord diagramC majorC     032010
  Chord diagramBB     224442             Chord diagramG+G     320003
  Chord diagramF#F#    244322             Chord diagramD MajorD     x00232
                           Chord diagramDsus4Dsus4 x00233

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