Matamoros Banks Ukulele chords by Bruce Springsteen

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