Chords for Chuck Pyle at BRAS "Keepin' Time By The River"

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_ _ _ Nights were deep, _ _ [Bb] long days were wide. _ _ _
_ Loving one another _ _ by [C] the riverside.
[C] _ _ _ [F] That every day was another new [Gm] day to know.
[Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _ But you [F] can't push the river, [C] mighty river, [F] just no more.
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[F] _ [G] _ [Bb] Keep in time, _ _ _ [F] keep in time by the river.
[C] Let that mighty river [Bb] take your little [F] life and go. _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Keep in time by the river, keep in time [Dm] by the river.
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[Bb] Oh, all the way down [C] to where I'll _ [F] reach _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ for you, _ [G] just like you [F] reach for me.
_ _ _ _ Like a lonely river _ _ reaching [C] for the sea, _
_ [D] meet [F] me down where the _ water's deep [Bb] and slow.
[Bbm] _ _ But you can't push the [G] river, mighty [F] river, just gonna flow. _ _ _
_ Deep inside _ by the river, deep inside _ by the river.
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Let that mighty [Bb] river take your little life.
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_ _ [Bb] Deep inside, _
_ _ _ [F] deep inside [Dm] by the [C] river.
Oh, all [F] the way down [Gm] to where [F] all the rivers go. _ _ _
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_ _ So it's my [Bb] unique opportunity as I [C] travel around this great country [F] of ours
to read the philosophies of social issues, politics, and religion
on the backs of people's automobiles.
[C] So I will name off some of my favorites by cities,
since many of them [F] are quite regional. _
I'll [Bb] start with my beloved Texas.
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Fort Worth, basketball, baseball, football. _
_ [C] I'll take one ball, [F] rodeo takes two. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Laramie, I always ride the horse in the direction it's going. _ _
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Commerce City, we live here so you won't [C] have to. _ _
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_ Colorado Springs, [Fm] you can be sure you've created God [F] in your own image
if he hates the same [Bbm] people you do. _
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_ [Bb] St.
Paul, well, [F] St.
Paul was in the Bible.
Minneapolis, was it? _ _
_ _ _ Missoula, the closer you get to [C] Canada, the more things there are that'll eat your horse. _
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_ _ _ [F] [C] The Roswell buckle [F] up, _ it's harder for [C] them to suck you out of your car.
[F] _ _ _ Sing.
_ Keep [Bb] in time by the river, _ [F] keep in time, keep in time by the river.
[C] Let that mighty river [Bb] take you a life [F] in tow. _ _ _
_ Keep [Bb] in time by the river, _ keep in time [Dm] by the river.
[Gm] All the [F] way down to where [C] all the [Bb] rivers go.
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_ [F] All the [F] way down to where all _ [D] [Bb] the rivers go.
[F] I'll take the high road now, you know there's less traffic up there.
Try to be more positive [C] and less perfect.
Rumi said fear is the cheapest seat in the house. _
Ashley Brilliant said your [Cm] life's based upon [F] a true story.
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] Heifetz said wherever you [F] dream of [C] going, I have camp there
and left firewood for you when you [F] arrive.
_ [C] Oscar Wilde said be yourself, everyone is taken.
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_ Golda Meir, she said to one [F] of her aides one time, she [C] said,
don't be so humble, you aren't that important.
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_ [C] _ H.L. Mencken, editor of the Baltimore Sun, [F] for 33 years, he said,
I read about the evils of drinking and I gave up reading. _ _ _
_ So dare to have an original thought, remember [C] a conclusion might have been
where you got tired of [Bb] thinking, [F]
hang out with people in search of the truth
and run from those that have found it.
Lord have mercy.
Thanks Bruce. _
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Thank you. _ _ _ _
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