Chords for Down the River/ Chris Knight Cover

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_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ I was 18, [Db] my brother was 21. _
[Bbm] _ One Saturday evening, [Db] when all the work was [Ab] done, we went down to the river, had some
tried lines to run. _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] My brother Walter [Db] had a fight the week before, _
[Bb] _ [Bbm] knocked a boy named Wilson [Db] _ through the cold hard core.
[Ab] They said, you don't mess with Wilson [Gb] unless you want war. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] I put the [Bbm] boat in the water [Db] and I made the engine run.
[Bbm] I loaded the landing [Db] _ against the sinking _ sun.
And my brother Walter [Gb] was loading his gun.
[Db] And we _ [Ab] went [Bbm] down the river. _
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_ [Bbm] Down past the coal docks, [Db] we were running our line.
_ [Bbm] _ Heard some drunken [Db] boaters _ racing up behind.
It [Ab] was Wilson and his cousin, [Db] had trouble on their minds.
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_ [Bbm] They passed on by us, [Db] probably going to tend their pot.
[Bbm] _ We headed up the river [Db] _ with the fish we caught.
[Ab] But before we made the landing, [Db] I thought I heard a shot.
_ _ Back [Ab] _ _
[Bbm] down the river.
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] My [Bbm]
brother Walter [Db] fell over the side.
[Bb] And I [Bbm] couldn't find him, [Db] no matter how I tried.
And [Ab] I looked along the banks, [Gbm] but couldn't find where they'd hide.
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] [Bbm] They drug the river, _ [Db] they searched it up and down. _
[Bb] Couldn't [Bbm] find his body, so [Db] they decided that he'd drown.
_ [Ab] _ But I knew better, [Gb] Wilson bragged around town.
So _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ one night I floated [Db] down, right above Wilson's shack. _
[Bb] I [Bbm] hid in the woods, [Db] till I saw him walk out back.
[Ab] I put a bullet in his head, _
[Gb] I dropped him in his tracks.
[Db] And we [Ab] went down the [Bbm] river. _ _
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_ [Bbm] Underneath the trestle, [Db] where the water runs slow.
_ [Bb] I chained [Bbm] him to an anvil, [Db] and then I let him go.
[Ab] And five years later, _ [Gbm] I ain't told of so.
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[Bbm] And I ain't done much fishing, [Db] I hardly wet a line.
[Bb] The _ [Bbm] death of my brother, [Db] is still heavy on my mind.
I've [Ab] been thinking, Wilson's cousin, _ [Gb] better find a place to hide.
_ [Db] Cause [Ab] I'm going _ [Bbm] down the river.
_ _ _ [Db] Yeah, [Ab] I'm going [Bb] down the [Bbm] river. _ _
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