Chords for River Of Tears

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_ _ Well [E] it's a cold rain on [F#] the autumn when the [G] brother murdered in [F#] Sydney [B] town.
_ [E] A Merrickville brother [F#] on the legal car, vying [G] his homeland gunned him [F#] down.
_ And we say, [E] _ _ oh, [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [F#] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [E] _ _ oh, _ _ _
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_ We [E] say, _ oh, _
[F#] _ oh, [G] oh, oh, oh, [F#] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [E] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Sad river [G] of tears, 200 [F#] years and a river [E] of _ sorrow.
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_ Well [E] I took him out [F#] at Point [B] Blank Range [Em] in his home with his small young [F#] son.
[B] I _ [E] shot him dead [F#] in his Maricville bed with [G] a pump-action [F#] 12 gauge shotgun.
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_ [F#] _ _ _ [G] I _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [E] shot him dead _
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_ _ _ [F#] _ in his Maricville bed with a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun.
And we [E] say,
_ _ _ _ [F#] And we say, _ _
[G] _ A _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] sad river [G] of tears, 200 [F#] years in a [E] river of _ tears.
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_ [F#] _ [B] _ You [E] left a fatherless child [C#] and a grieving wife, a [G] black fugitive on the [F#] run
_ [B] _ [E] Running from [B] two _ centuries, [G] _
oppression's loaded [B] gun
And we [E] say, _ oh, oh, [C#] _ oh, oh, oh, oh, [G] oh, oh, oh, [F#] _ they shoot [E] you down
A [C#] _ sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [B] years, and a river of [E] tears.
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They shoot you down.
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A sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [F#]
years.
_ [E] And you're just terrorists twisted [F#] through the form under [G] protection of their [F#] law.
_ _ [Em] They terrorize blacks and multitudes.
They [G] come and crash it through your [B] door.
Yeah, [E] they're safe up in [B] Freedom Street.
[G] They're not safe inside the [C#] gate.
_ [Bm] But with [Em] their shotguns and their [F#] stun guns, they're such [G] a trap.
Nowhere you'll [F#] stand.
And [E] we say, oh, _ [C#] oh.
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_ _ [F#] They shoot [E] you down. _
_ [F#] A sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [C#] years, and a river [E] of tears. _
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_ [F#] _ They shoot [E] you down. _
_ _ A sand river [Em] of tears, two hundred [F#m] years.
You [E] can't call in [F#m] on the officer with [G] a brother that is [A] sitting down.
[E] A man's no brother, not [F#] a legal cover.
[G] And it's all I got [A] to tell.
_ [E] Yeah, they're safe up in [F#] Freedom Street.
[G] They're not safe inside [A] the gate.
_ [E] But with their shotguns and [F#] their stun guns, [G] they're such a trap.
Nowhere [A] you'll stand.
And we say, [E] _ _
oh, [F#m] oh.
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_ [A] _ They shoot [E] you down. _
_ [F#] A sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [A] years, and a river [E] of tears.
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_ [A] _ They shoot [E] you down.
_ [F#] A sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [A] years, and a [E] river of _ tears.
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_ [A] _ They [E] shoot you down. _
[F#] A sand river [G] of tears, two hundred [A] years, and a [E] river of tears.
Tears, [F#m] tears, tears, [G] tears, _ [A] tears, tears.
They shoot [E] you down. _ _
[F#] A sand river [G] of tears.
Yes!
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