The River - Bruce Springsteen - Lyrics(On Screen) Chords

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[D] We're Mr.
Winger.
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_ [E] They bring you up [G] to do _ _ [C] like your daddy [G] done.
_ [C] Me and Mary, we met in high school [G] when she was just seven.
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_ _ [Am] We'd drive out of this valley [D] down [G] to where [C] fields were green.
_ _ _ _ [Em] We'd go down to [C] the river [D] and into the river [G] we'd dive.
Oh, [Em]
down [C] to the river [D] we'd ride.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] Then I got married, [G] pregnant, and [D]
man, that was all [C] she wrote.
[D] _ [Em] And for my 19th [G] birthday, I got a [C] union card and a wedding [G] coat.
_ _ [C] We went down to the courthouse and the [G]
judge put it all [Em] to rest.
No [Am]
wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle, [G] no flowers, no wedding [C] dress.
At night we [Em] went down to [C] the river.
[D] Then into the river [G] we'd dive.
_ [Em] Oh, down to [C] the river [D] we'd ride.
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_ _ _ [Em] got a job working [G]
construction _ [D] for a Johnstown [C] company.
_ _ _ [Em] But lately there ain't been [G] much work [C] on account of the [G] economy.
_ _ _ [C] Now all them things that seemed so important, well, [G] Mr.
A [Bm] vanished right into [Em] the air.
Now [Am] I just act like I don't remember.
_ [G] Mary acts like she [C] don't care.
But I [Em] remember us riding [G] in my brother's car, her [D] body tan and wet [C] down at the _ reservoir.
[Em] At night on the [G] bankside, I'd lie awake and [C] foreclose just to feel [G] each breath she'd take.
[C] Those memories come back to haunt me.
[G] They haunt me [Em] like a curse.
_ [Am] Is the dream alive that don't come true?
[G] Or is it something [C]
worse that sends [G] me down [C] to the river?
[D] Oh, I know the river [G] is dry.
It sends [Em] me down to [C]
the river [D] _ tonight.
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_ [G] Down [Em] _ _ to [C] the river, [D] my baby [G] and I.
[Em] Oh, down to [C]
the river [D] we'd ride.
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