Chords with lyrics
Intro: C F C
C F C
For two days the river keeps you down
F F C
Then you rise to the light without a sound
C F C
Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards
F F C
The turtles eat the skin from your eyes, so they lay open to the stars
C F C
Your clothes give way to the current and river stone
F C
'Till every trace of who you ever were is gone
C F C
And the things of the earth they make their claim
F F C
That the things of heaven may do the same
F C
Goodbye, my darling, for your love I give God thanks,
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F C
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
C F C
Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds
F F C
I walk on twine and tire tread
C F C
My pockets full of dust, my mouth filled with cool stone
F C
The pale moon opens the earth to its bones
F C F C
I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks
F C
The touch of your loving fingertips
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F C C F C
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
C F C
Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind
F F C
I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again
C F C
The lights of Brownsville, across the river shine
F C
A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive
F C F C
I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks
F C
A touch of your loving fingertips
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F
Meet me on the Matamoros
C F C
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
