River Runs Red chords by The Steeldrivers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
    D MajorD         C majorC
The thirty-first day of December
    G+G              D MajorD
Three thousand dressed in blue and gray
  D MajorD           C majorC
All sons of the Heavenly Father
G+G          D MajorD
Lay in a watery grave

            C majorC   G+G
And the river runs red
           D MajorD  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
The river runs red

Verse:

   D MajorD            C majorC
One shot woke the Tennessee mornin'
   G+G             D MajorD
Soon fire and smoke filled the sky
D MajorD               C majorC
Then rain came down with no warning
G+G               D MajorD
As sorrow fell down from all sides

Chorus:

        D MajorD
The river runs red
        Am/C
The river runs red
          G+G
No winners or losers
            D MajorD
When you count the dead
          D MajorD
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G+G
The guns have gone silent
            D MajorD C majorC G+G
But the river runs red

D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD

Verse:

   D MajorD        C majorC
Now Rogers was from Alabama
   G+G           D MajorD
And Thomas an old New York town
   D MajorD                C majorC
But soon they would die like blood brothers
    G+G                  D MajorD
In the streets where their souls would flow down

Chorus:
         D MajorD
The river runs red
       Am/C
The river runs red
          G+G
No winners or losers
            D MajorD
When you count the dead
          D MajorD
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G+G
The guns have gone silent
            C majorC G+G D MajorD
But the river runs red


Bridge:

    FF             G+G
Some say you could see round for miles
                D MajorD
And it flowed that way so many years
     FF          G+G
Now the water looks clean and untainted
                 G+G
But Stones River will never run clear

          D MajorD
The river runs red
       Am/C
The river runs red
          G+G
No winners or losers
            D MajorD
When you count the dead
          D MajorD
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G+G
The guns have gone silent
            D MajorD C majorC G+G
But the river runs red

D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD