THE RIVER
Bruce Springsteen
Tempo: 115 - Intro played by acoustic and harp:
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I | come from down in the | valley
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Where | mister when you're | young
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They | bring you up to | do | like your daddy | done
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Me and | Mary we met in high school
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When | she was just | seven | teen
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We'd | ride out of that valley down to | where the fields were | green
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One bar pause, the the whole band begins to play
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We'd go | down to the | river
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And | into the river we'd | dive
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Oh | down to the | river we'd | ride | |
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Then | I got Mary pr | egnant
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And | man that was all | she wrote
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And | for my nineteenth b | irthday I got a union | card and a wedding | coat
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We | went down to the courthouse
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And the | judge put it | all to | rest
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No | wedding day smiles no walk down in the aisle
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No | flowers no wedding | dress
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That night we went | down to the | river
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And | into the river we'd | dive
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Oh | down to the | river we'd | ride | |
Solo (harp) over 1 Verse, starts like intro
Hammond organ starts playing chords lying around note e
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I | got a job working con | struction for the | Johnstown Compan | y
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But | lately there ain't been | much work on acc | ount of the econom | y
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Now | all them things that seemed so important
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Well | mister they | vanished right int | o the air
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Now I | just act like I don't remember
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Mary | acts like she don't | care
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But I | remember us riding in my | brother's car
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Her body | tan and wet down at the | reservoir
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At | night on them banks I'd | lie awake
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And pull her | close just to feel each other | breath she'd take
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Now those | memories come back to haunt me
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They | haunt me | like a | curse
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Is a | dream a lie if it don't come true
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Or | is it something | worse
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Chorus
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That sends me | down to the | river
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Though I | know the river is | dry,
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That sends me | down to the | river to | night | |
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Oh | down to the | river we'd | ride | |
at least 2 x on Chorus, then one chorus instrumental and end
Tablature of the intro for diatonic G-harp
v = pull, ^ = blow, \ = bend
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6 6 6 7 8 9 9 8 6 9 9 8 9 6 6
v v v v ^ ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v v v
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