Down To The River chords - Pat Green

How to Play "Down To The River" Guitar chords

Capo:  3rd Fret

G (mute)
Take me down to the river

				     D
Where I can hold your body close to mine

	C		D
We'd listen to the rhythm

      C		     D
Of that old water rollin

	    C		    D		  G
You can stay with me until the morning light

G
I found you in a Louisiana roadside park

					D
Beat up, broke down no place left to turn

   C		       D	      C     D
I took you back to Texas under a harvest moon

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       C		    D        G
We found a little place to call our own

G
We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years

				     D
Married at the tender age of twenty-one

C		     D	         C		  D	
Rollin' down the highways, dirt roads and the byways

C			    D		G
Would you like to drive so I would go shotgun


CHORUS

G
We'd go down to the river

					 D
Where I could hold your body close to mine

	C	      D	
We'd listen to the rhythm

      C		     D
Of that old water rollin

	   C		    D		G	
You can stay with me until the morning light

G
Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head

					 D	
And has taken my sweet love so far from me

	    C			D
Yeah he swept you off to Boulder

	      C			D	
Where the air it gets much colder

		C		 D	    G	
Than this southern boy would ever like to see

G
I think of calling you on lonely nights

				  D	
When being alone gets the best of me

	    C			D
Yeah but this here whiskey bottle

        C           D	 	
Will take me to a place

C		 D	    G
Where you and I will always be


CHORUS

	 A	
When you came back home everybody said I was a fool 
                                                              
                                                              E	
'Cause I took you back without a word to say

       D			E		D		E
But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin'

	D			   E	           A
And I donÕt give a damn about what those people say.


CHORUS

	     A	
We'd go down to the river

                                                             E
Where I could hold your body close to mine

	D	      E	
We'd listen to the rhythm

      D		     E
Of that old water rollin

	   D		    E		     A	
You can stay with me until the morning light

	A
I wanna go down to the river

	   A	
Take me down to the river

	A	
I wanna go down to the river

A-E-D   A-E-D