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 
       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 don?t 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 
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