Pat Green - Down to the River

      "Down To The River"
by:  Pat Green and Kirk Zander
Album:  Dancehall Dreamer & Here We Go - The Live Album

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

A-E-D   A-E-D