Capo on 2 G5 Down to the river, lets go C5 Down to the river, lets go D5 Down to the river, going G5 C5 Down and we're out from the days we were born D5 C5 G5 Come down here with broken hearts and our emotions torn G5 C5 Off the beaten path to our old stomping grounds D5 C5 As long as we've been growing up we've been coming G5 Down to the river, lets go C5 Down to the river, lets go D5 Down to the river, going G5 C5 Down Mackinac, yeah we will have some fun D5 C5 G5 Get your daddy's old guitar and get your daddy's gun G5 C5 Big brother will buy the beer, we'll shed a couple rounds D5 C5 Stack up all the emptiness and then we'll knock them G5 Down to the river, lets go C5 Down to the river, lets go D5 Down to the river, going G5 C5 Down on our luck and up comes the cost D5 C5 G5 Everything we do and done and all that we have lost G5 C5 Empty out our pockets just to get around D5 C5 The rich they keep on rising while the poor keep falling G5 Down to the river, lets go C5 Down to the river, lets go D5 Down to the river, going G5 C5 Down go the faces of another dad and mom , D5 C5 G5 Down goes another soldier to a roadside bomb G5 C5 I read it in the paper and on the faces of our town D5 C5 Tomorrow we go to Pekin Illinois to lay him G5 Down to the river, lets go C5 Down to the river, lets go D5 Down to the river, going G5 Down