On The Red River chords by Turnpike Troubadours

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: D

Intro:

D


Verse 1:
D                                Bm
There's a mid-July white-tail in velvet
D                     Em  G
Red as your old Chevrolet
    D        A             G              D
And I was sixteen when you wrecked it and we
     Em                    Bm  A
Were lucky we both walked away
              D                        Bm
And you could do work and scrape out a living
    D                           Em G
The work for which you had been born
         D            A            G     D
You were quick with a laugh and forgiven
    Em                        Bm   A
And tied hard and fast to the horn
       D                        Bm
We had Kelpies and good Quarter Horses
       D                         Em   G
We had wheat pasture yields tied down
           D            A          G       D
We learned pain was the price of admission
           Em                        Bm   A
And you're never done paying it down

Chorus:
     Bm         A          G         D
Back on the red river, not hard to remember
          Bm             A        G
When your daddy wouldn't ever get old
D              A          D          G
When I saw the world from up on your shoulders
    Bm         A              G            D
I remember the view, when you live like we do
Bm            A              Em           Bm   A
Death doesn't leave with the best part of you


Verse 2:
   D                                Bm
On days off, we'd help out our neighbors
       D                         Em   G
And we smiled and we sweated for free
      D            A               G     D
You'd earned every dream with your labor
        Em                            Bm  A
And I'd sleep on your front seat 'til 3
          D                          Bm
And you'd call it a cure for a snake bite
  D                      Em       G
I reached for a fifth of Old Crow
     D        A               G          D
Some medicine should get your head right
          Em                             Bm   A
When your symptoms were starting to show


Chorus:
     Bm         A          G         D
Back on the red river, not hard to remember
          Bm             A        G
When your daddy wouldn't ever get old
D              A          D          G
When I saw the world from up on your shoulders
    Bm         A              G            D
I remember the view, when you live like we do
Bm            A              Em           Bm   A
Death doesn't leave with the best part of you


Interlude:
Bm  A  G  D  Bm  A  G      D  A  D
G  Bm  A



Verse 3:
              D                         Bm
And there are pickups lined up down the driveway
       D                        Em  G
Have I really been gone for two years?
    D        A          G        D
I'd be on my third on a good day
    Em                          Bm  A
I'd find my last bottle of beer
        D                            Bm
I guess Saturday started without you
  D                     Em   G
I knew before I got the call
    D        A             G      D
The red July bucks were in velvet
     Em                      Bm    A
I'll tell you about 'em this fall


Chorus:
     Bm         A          G         D
Back on the red river, not hard to remember
          Bm             A        G
When your daddy wouldn't ever get old
D              A          D          G
When I saw the world from up on your shoulders
    Bm         A              G            D
I remember the view, when you live like we do
Bm            A              Em           Bm
Death doesn't leave with the best part of you


Outro:
                  A          D          G     D G
Got a look at the world from up on your shoulders
               A              G            D
I remember the view, when you live like we do
Bm            A              Em           Bm
Death doesn't leave with the best part of you