Tonart: E minor
Intro 1
G#m
B
F#
E
B
C#m
B
E
Verse 1
G#m
I come
B
from down in the valley
F#
E
Where, mister, when you're young
G#m
B
They bring you up to do
E
B
like your daddy done
E
Me and Mary we met in high school
B
When she was just seventeen
G#m
C#m
We drive out of this valley
F#
B
E
Down to where the fields were green
G#m
E
We'd go down to the river
F#
B
And into the river we'd dive
G#m
E
Oh, down to the river we'd ride
F#
Verse 2
E
G#m
B
Then I got Mary pregnant
F#
E
And man, that was all she wrote
G#m
B
And for my nineteenth birthday
E
B
I got a union card and a wedding coat
E
We went down to the courthouse
B
F#
G#m
And the judge put it all to rest
C#m
No wedding day smiles,
no walk down the aisle
B
E
No flowers, no wedding dress
Verse 3
G#m
E
That night we went down to the river
F#
B
And into the river we'd dive
G#m
E
F#
Oh, down to the river we did ride
Interlude 1
Yeah, yeah
E
G#m
B
F#
E
G#m
B
E
B
E
B
G#m
C#m
B
E
Verse 4
G#m
B
I got a job working construction
F#
E
For the Johnstown Company
G#m
B
But lately there ain't been much work
E
On account of the economy
B
E
Now all them things that
seemed so important
B
Well mister they vanished
F#
G#m
right into the air
C#m
Now I just act like I don't remember
B
E
Mary acts like she don't care
Verse 5
G#m
But I remember us riding
B
in my brother's car
F#
E
Her body tan and wet, down at the reservoir
G#m
B
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
E
And pull her close just to feel
B
each breath she'd take
E
Now those memories come
back to haunt me
B
F#
B
G#m
They haunt me like a curse
C#m
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
B
E
Or is it something worse
G#m
E
That sends me down to the river
F#
B
Though I know the river is dry
G#m
That sends me down to the
E
F#
E
river tonight
G#m
E
Down to the river
F#
B
My baby and I
G#m
E
Oh, down to the river we
F#
ride- ide
Verse 6
E
B
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
G#m
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
E
F#
B
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
G#m
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
E
F#
Oo h- ooh- ooh- ooh
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
E
G#m
E
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh
F#
B
F#
G#m
E
Ooh- ooh- ooh- ooh- oo h
Outro 1
F#
E
G#m
E
F#
B
G#m
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TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteG#m B F# E C#m
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