Rio Grande Chords by Dave Alvin

[N] _ _ [C] _ _ I guess she put a blue dress [Am] on and walked out late last night
[C] _ _ Left one silk stocking [Am] dangling from the bedside light
_ I [A] sobered up and called [F] her name _ just before dawn
_ [Dm] _ I saw her blueprints in the [F] sand and knew that she had gone _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Down to Rio [C] Grande _
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ I pulled out of _ Albuquerque [A] praying I wasn't late
_ _ [C] I got a couple cups of coffee and [Am] some joint off the _ interstate
_ [D] _ _ Passing through Las Cruces [F] I swear I saw her car
_ _ [D] She always said she'd go someday _ [F] but never said how far
_ Down _ _ _ to [C] Rio _ Grande _
_ _ _ [D] _ Maybe [G] she's in _ Brownsville, [C] she's got some family [Am]
there
_ _ [D] She was [G] always talking about [C] the salty [G] Gulf Coast [Am]
air
_ _ Where the river [Dm] _ _
is
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [G] Down to [C] Rio Grande
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ I saw an old gray heron [Am] flying south against the wind
_ [C] Storm clouds over Juarez [Am] rolling east to the Big Bend
_ [D] I drove down Highway 90 through [F] a dusty desert rain
_ [Dm] I didn't know where it would lead me or [C] if I'd find her _ again _ _ _ _ _
_ Down to Rio _ Grande _
_ I _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ lit my last cigarette as [Am] the sky began to clear
_ _ [C] _ Black mountains up [Am] ahead and a red sun down in my mirror
_ [D] _ Lost on the [C]
border between [F] the future [C] and [F] the past
_ _ [Dm] _ One fading slowly and [F] the other coming _ fast
_ _ _ _ _ Down to [C] Rio _ Grande _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ Maybe [G] she's in _ Brownsville, [C] she's got some family [Am] there _
_ [Dm] She was [G] always talking about [C] the salty Gulf Coast [Am] air _
_ Where the [Dm] river is _
[D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ Down to Rio [C] _ _ Grande
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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_ [G] Well I [C] bought a bottle in Del Rio and I parked on the side of the road
_ And I stayed up all night staring [Am] at the lights of Mexico
_ _ [D] Then I walked down to the border [C] bridge _ at the break of day
[D] And I threw that empty bottle off and [F] watched it float away
_ Down _ [C] _ _
[G] to Rio [C] _ Grande _ _
Maybe _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] she's in _ Brownsville, [C] she's got some [Am] family there
_ _ [Dm] _ She was [G] always talking about [C] the salty Gulf [Am] Coast air
_ _ Where the [D] river is
_ _ Down [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ to [C] Rio _ Grande
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ Where the river [D] _
is
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