Artist: Rocky Votolato
Album: True Devotion
Song: Red River
Transcribed by: Chris Sheehy

Tuning: Down a half step

Intro

A5 (x022xx@1)Ab5 (133xxx@4)F#5 (244xxx@1)Ab5 (133xxx@4)E (022100@1)
Verse
E (022100@1)                              C#mThis (x13321@4)is what life is like on the ground
AI (x02220@1)had a brother who was stationed up in northern hill county, 
E (022100@1)                     B5no (x244xx@1)he never really came home
E (022100@1)                                       C#mWe (x13321@4)drove out east to red river to see the high water flow
      AThat (x02220@1)river was running just searching for an ocean
     E (022100@1)                B5The (x244xx@1)freedom he'd never known
       C#mThat (x13321@4)feeling you get when the wind is blowing like
        A (x02220@1)  
your whole life is starting over
              E (022100@1)                       B5We (x244xx@1)made our peace there in the no mans land
             A5where (x022xx@1)we come from

Chorus
         EIve (022100@1)been searching for
                C#mThe (x13321@4)waves that carried us home
        ATo (x02220@1)the ocean we all came from
          E (022100@1)       B5Where (x244xx@1)we wont be returned
          EIve (022100@1)been searching for
                C#mThe (x13321@4)waves that carried us home
        ATo (x02220@1)the ocean we all came from
          E (022100@1)       B5Where (x244xx@1)we wont be dissolved
      Ainto (x02220@1)one

Verse
E (022100@1)                                     C#mLike (x13321@4)a simple animal running on broken legs that night
     A (x02220@1)                                        EHis (022100@1)voice was splintering rising, falling to a fate 
                 B5he'll (x244xx@1)never get out
E (022100@1)                                     C#mFrom (x13321@4)spokane all the way across montana out to the blood reserve
A (x02220@1)                                   
Black levis jacket knocking them beers back on the 
E (022100@1)           B5bank (x244xx@1)of that river
C#m (x13321@4)                          AUnderneath (x02220@1)September skies in south US border
              Ehe (022100@1)made his peace there 
                B5just (x244xx@1)after his boots 
                Afilled (x02220@1)up with water


Chorus
         EIve (022100@1)been searching for
                C#mThe (x13321@4)waves that carried us home
        ATo (x02220@1)the ocean we all came from
          E (022100@1)       B5Where (x244xx@1)we wont be returned
          EIve (022100@1)been searching for
                C#mThe (x13321@4)waves that carried us home
        ATo (x02220@1)the ocean we all came from
          E (022100@1)       B5Where (x244xx@1)we wont be dissolved

EWaves (022100@1)will wash away 
      C#mthe (x13321@4)misguided vision
AGlory (x02220@1)in a battlefield 
        E (022100@1)      B5of (x244xx@1)a thousand corpses
          EIve (022100@1)been searching for
                C#mThe (x13321@4)waves that carried us home
        ATo (x02220@1)the ocean we all came from
          E (022100@1)       B5Where (x244xx@1)we wont be dissolved

A (x02220@1)    Ab5 (133xxx@4)   F#5 (244xxx@1) Ab5 (133xxx@4)   EOut (022100@1)of the rain