THE RIVER

Bruce Springsteen

Tempo: 115 - Intro played by acoustic and harp:

	Em	G
I	come from down in the	valley

	D	C
Where	mister when you're	young

	Em	G	C	G
They	bring you up to	do	like your daddy	done

	C
Me and	Mary we met in high school

	G	D/F#	Em
When	she was just	seven	teen

	Am	G	C
We'd	ride out of that valley down to	where the fields were	green

One bar pause, the the whole band begins to play

	Em	G
Then	I got Mary pr	egnant

	D	C
And	man that was all	she wrote

	Em	G	C	G
And	for my nineteenth b	irthday I got a union	card and a wedding	coat

	C
We	went down to the courthouse

	G	D/#F	Em
And the	judge put it	all to	rest

	Am
No	wedding day smiles no walk down in the aisle

	G	C
No	flowers no wedding	dress

Solo (harp) over 1 Verse, starts like intro

Hammond organ starts playing chords lying around note e

	Em	G
But I	remember us riding in my	brother's car

	D	C
Her body	tan and wet down at the	reservoir

	Em	G
At	night on them banks I'd	lie awake

	C	G
And pull her	close just to feel each other	breath she'd take

	C
Now those	memories come back to haunt me

	G	D/F#	Em
They	haunt me	like a	curse

	Am
Is a	dream a lie if it don't come true

	G	C
Or	is it something	worse

Chorus

	Em	C
	Down to the	river

	D	G
My	baby and	I

	Em	C	D	C
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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