Chords with lyrics
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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:
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD x2 E MajorE BB F#F# BB F#F# x2
Guitar 1 Intro Riff: (relative to capo) x2
C majorC G+G D MajorD D MajorD
e|--3-0---3---3-0------2-0---2---2-0---------|
BB|--3---3-----3--3-0---3---3-----3---3-------|
G+G|--0---------0--------2---------2-----2-----|
D MajorD|--2---------0--------0---------0-----------|
A augmentedA|--3---------2--------0---------0-----------|
E MajorE|------------3------------------------------|
C majorC (E MajorE) G+G (BB) D MajorD (F#F#)
Spit into the center of your hometown, there's leaves in the street,
Dsus4(BB) D(F#F#) C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
and there are friends around you now. All the days of your life in a line.
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
or the way they seemed by 89...
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
But it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.
C majorC G+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G
We lie awake at night in a tent and I say,
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC
Tell me about your uncle and his friend because they seem like very bad men.
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4
Well we want to keep away from them.
D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Bend in the road back there, we saw the place they go.
C majorC G+G D MajorD
Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC
or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio.
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4
Play it again and again it cuts off at the ending though.
D MajorD C majorC G+G
Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend.
D MajorD
Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again?
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC G+G
All the way down the line to where the telephone ends
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
come on and shout it on down the wire.
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
And it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.
C majorC G+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G
And as the rescue party, the volunteer team, oh (shit),
D MajorD
they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thing
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC
they've seen they're standing all around that tree,
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
and I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying.
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD x2
{Sparse Strumming}
C majorC G+G
Shivering from the late fall cold,
D MajorD
I felt like a solid ghost.
C majorC
I ran and then I couldn't slow.
G+G D MajorD
My father found me though, my father took me home.
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC G+G
He said, oh, son, I saw you get knocked down,
D MajorD
and I ran out I bet your head was spinning.
C majorC
With that bright pain you stunned, {resume strumming}
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4
when you've only just begun to be only just beginning.
D MajorD C majorC G+G
Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears,
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
and all that difficult shit in all those tender years.
C majorC G+G
There was something in the air; something gathered in the air.
D MajorD
Something singing in the wind.
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC G+G
I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror.
D MajorD
And you'll be all right because I'll be right here.
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC
Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere.
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere.
C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4
Though it's not all right. It is still far from all right.
D MajorD C majorC
We'll make it into a choice somehow.
G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow.
C majorC G+G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G
We can never go back; we can only remember
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
**YouTube Version**
C majorC G+G
Waking in the dawn with that dream growing dimmer and dimmer.
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
C majorC G+G D MajorD
Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down, Are we going down?
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D 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 D MajorD (F#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
D MajorD (F#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:
E MajorE 022100 C majorC 032010
BB 224442 G+G 320003
F#F# 244322 D MajorD x00232
Dsus4Dsus4 x00233