The River People chords by The Walkabouts

Song : The River People
Tabbed by : biglice33
Tuning : Standard

There was no tab for this amazing song, so here it is. I hope you'll like it. Tell me if
you find any mistake & sorry for my English I'm not a native.. ;P
_Enjoy !


Intro (**you can see the small riff I've found at the end of the tab) :

Dm Dm Am G G Dm Dm
Dm Dm Am G G Dm Dm
G G Dm Dm Am G Dm Dm
G G Dm Dm Am G G G

Dm

     Am           G             Dm
Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here.
Dl   Am               G           Dm
I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier.
G                  Dm
  People want your business and little more
Am        G          Dm
  I've watched shadows lengthen from a closed door.


Dm       Am            G
       Dm
Mountains wide, nothing is clearer to the River People than what the others try and hide.
Dm     Am               G
       Dm
You spoke, pushed your chair back at the meeting and I could tell that you were petrified.
G                     Dm
  You said the best people can suddenly oppose
Am        G           Dm
  The sight of good will and then it arose.
G                    Dm
  Two people, four people crossed the floor
Am         G         Dm
  I saw children run, I wept amidst the uproar

Dm  Am G Dm
Dm  Am G Dm


Dm [STOP]  Am         G              Dm
Around here your stranded face before the moonlight, the color of the sea.
Dm [STOP] Am         G              Dm
You came up to the house after swimming on sunset and the flattened sea.
G                Dm
  The sky had opened, it had gone bust
Am      G             Dm
  You and I watched the River People swim before us
G                 Dm
  The sky had opened, it had gone bust
Am      G             Dm
  You and I watched the river people swim before us

Dm  Am G Dm
Dm  Am G Dm


G                     Dm
  You said the best people can suddenly oppose
Am        G           Dm
  The sight of good will and then it arose.
G                    Dm
  Two people, four people crossed the floor
Am         G         Dm
  I saw children run, I wept amidst the uproar


Dm
  Down here . . . Am G Dm
Dm
  You came . . . Am G Am G Dm Am Dm

[THE END] : Dm



For each chord at the beginning, I heard something like :

     Dm        Am       G

e |-------1----------------0---------------3-------------|
B |-----3---3------------1---1-----------3---3-----------|
G |---2-------2--------2-------2-------0-------0---------|
D |-0----------------------------------------------------|
A |------------------0-----------------------------------|