Chords for Mark Seymour teaches you to play "When the River Runs Dry"

[Dm] I'm sitting in a recording studio with Triple M on the edge of the Brisbane River and my name's Mark Seymour. _ _
And I'm going to record a song [D] that Hunters and Collectors played in the late _ 1980s called When the River Runs Dry.
But I'm performing it on acoustic guitar because there's no band here with me.
_ _ And the way I've got around dealing with their absence is to _ interpret the song on acoustic guitar.
_ No drums, no bass, _ no horns, no electric guitar, no keyboards, just me and this thing here. _
And what I've done is _ _ I've taken a chord, the A minor chord, which is _ _ deeply folk
_ and one of my favourite chords, it's very sad.
[Dm] _ _ [D] And I've [C] introduced a scale underneath it with my left hand, which is _ [B] C, [Bb] B and then B [Dm] flat.
And I've _ used that to define the verse feel.
And like a lot of those songs from the early days of the band, there were only two sections, a verse and a chorus, _ which made for wonderful simplicity. _
We liked to keep things simple back then.
_ That's before the producer from California got a hold of us and told us we had to always have a third part in our songs.
And anyway, _ so _ [D] the first section runs like this.
[C] _ _ [G] _
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ [D] _ [C] Good [F] [Em] news for [C] beautiful people, [D] _ [C] watching the world [Em] go by.
[E] _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [F] Make [Bm] love in the middle [E] of a war [C] zone, hey, you're never [G] gonna [Gm] die.
[C] _ [Dm] Don't rock the [G] boat, keep [Gm] your head [Dm] down, you're just another fool [G] in the crowd.
[Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ Everybody knows [Em] you can [Gm] be a [C] winner, [Bb] come on and [A] shout it [F] out loud.
_ _ I'll stop there because I'm about to launch into the chorus, _ which is in this chord, it's an F. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ An F played in a C shape with a capo on the fifth fret.
Just write that down.
_ And the chorus comes in on that major chord like _ this.
When the river runs dry, _ _ [Am] _ _
you [G] will return to the scene of the crime.
When the [Am] river [F] runs dry, _ [Am] _ _
salvation [G] will rain on you one more time.
When the river [Dm] _ [F] runs_
_ [G] Back into the [Bb] verse.
_ [Dm] And that's it.
_ [G] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Dm] You got the [C] power, [G] I [Bb] got the money, [Dm] another [C] million [G] miles to [Bb] run.
_ [Dm] _ [C] I'd cry, [G] cry [Bb] for the future, [Dm] but I wouldn't [C] get [G] anything done.
[Bb] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Am] Relax, [G] _ [Bb] abandon ship, [D] turn [F] your back on mother [G] nature.
[Bb] _
_ [D] You [C] got nothing [G] but your soul [Bb] to sell.
[Dm] [Am] You got nothing.
_ When the river [F] runs dry, _ _ [Am] _ _
you [G] will return to the scene of the crime.
When the [Am] river [F] runs dry, _ [Am] _ _
salvation [G] will rain on you one more time.
When the river [Dm] runs _ _ [G] dry_
[Bb] _
_ [Dm] This is the way that normally [G] a solo comes [E] in, but I'll do this.
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Dm] _ _ Ooh_
[Bm] _ [Em] _ [Bb] _
_ [E] _ [Dm] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Am] _ Good news for beautiful people [Dm] _ [Bb] watching the world go [Am] by.
_ [Dm] _ [C] Make [G] love in the middle [Bb] of a war [Am] zone.
All of God's children [Dm] [Am] are never [F] gonna _ [Am] die. _ _
You [G] will return to the scene of the crime.
When the [Am] river [F] runs _ [Am] dry, _ _ salvation [G] will rain on you one more [Am] _ [Ab] _
[G] time.
And that's it.
Thank you.
_ _ [N] _