The River Chords by Bruce Springsteen

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_ [Em] From down [G] the valley [D] where mister when [C] you're young _ [E] they bring you up [G] to do _ [C] like your daddy
[G] Don.
Me [C] and Mary we met in high school [G] when she was just seven [Em] and three.
_ [A] We'd drive [Am] out
this valley _ 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 to [C] the river _ [D] we'd ride.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] Then I got [G] Mary pregnant _ and [D] man that was all she [C] wrote
[D] _ [Em] and for my 19th [G] birthday I got a union [C]
card and a wedding [G] coat.
_ _ [C] We went down to the courthouse
and the [G]
judge put it all [Em] to rest.
_ [Am] No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle, [G] no flowers,
no wedding [C] dress.
That [Em] night we went down to [C] the river [D] and into the river [G] we'd dive
oh [Em]
down to [C] the river we'd [D]
ride.
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yeah
I [Em] got a job working [G]
construction _ for [D] a joint-stock [C] company _ but [Em] 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.
_ [Am] Now 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 tanned and wet [C] down at the _ reservoir.
[Em] At night on the [G] bankside I'd lie awake and [C] pull her clothes just to feel [G] each breath she'd take.
[C] Those memories come back to haunt me.
[G] They haunt me like [Em] a curse.
_ [Am] Is a dream a lie that don't come true
[G] or is it something [C]
worse that sends [Em] me down [C] to the river?
[D] Oh I know the river [G] is dry
that sends [Em] me down to [C]
the river _ [D] _ tonight.
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_ Down [Em] _ _ to [C] the river [D] my baby [G] and I.
Oh [Em] down to [C] the _ river [D] we ride.
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