Chords with lyrics
Intro:
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb C minorCm
G minorGm FF C minorCm
Verse 1:
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
I'm going home, to see my friend
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
Nothing's bright but everything is pale
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
And a bruised breeze fills a river man sails
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb C minorCm
G minorGm FF C minorCm
Verse 2:
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
Graveyards gums have grown new teeth
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
Pretty new pearls adorned by pretty new reeds
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
I twist my tongue and you bend my ear
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
Light another cigarette and tell me you've had a bad year
Chorus:
Eb MajorEb G minorGm
Slipping through ivory stones
Bb majorBb FF
Familiar faces I don't know
Eb MajorEb G minorGm
Channel wine, bitter pride
Bb majorBb FF
Designed to satisfy
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb C minorCm
I drowned these thoughts by the riverside
G minorGm FF C minorCm
Verse 3:
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
The river ink composes poems
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
Her bridges break and the boatmen punctuate
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
She teaches me through tides and wakes
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
Her words are ripples and waves of frosted lakes
Chorus:
Eb MajorEb G minorGm
Slipping through ivory stones
Bb majorBb FF
Familiar faces I don't know
Eb MajorEb G minorGm
Channel wine, bitter pride
Bb majorBb FF
Designed to satisfy
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb C minorCm
I drowned these thoughts by the riverside
G minorGm FF C minorCm
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
I'm going home, to see my friend
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF
In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend
G minorGm FF Bb majorBb
I twist my tongue and you bend my ear
C minorCm Bb majorBb FF