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River Run by James Keelaghan
River Run
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
F Am Bb C F Am Bb C F Am Bb C F Am Bb C
[First Verse]
F Am Bb C
River of blue cut through the valley
F Am Bb C
Swept past the willows and the sandy bar
F Am Bb C
Ran so swift, locked in my mem'ry
F Am Bb C
But the way things were is not the way things are
F Am Bb C
We used to swim in the crook of its arm
F Am Bb C
In the summer heat who could be blamed
Gm C F Bb
Avoided the rapids as best as we could
Gm C F
Never thought that that stream could be tamed
Am Bb C F Am Bb C
[Second Verse]
F Am Bb C
Long ago I gave up that riverside valley
F Am Bb C
Traded coulees for towers of steel
Gm C F Bb
Abandoned the vistas and valleys of childhood
Gm Csus4 C
For the things that they told me were real
F Am Bb C
No more would I run with the speed of a colt
F Am Bb C
Cross the gravel down by water side
Gm C F Bb
To race with the twig I threw in at the bend
Gm C Fsus4 F
Couldn't beat it though god knows I tried
[Chorus]
C Bb C
Now the river's not running as fast as it did
F Am Bb C
There's a dam there restricting the flow
Gm C F Bb
And I don't run either as fast as I could
Gm C F
Guess that river and I have grown old
Am Bb C F Am Bb C
[Third Verse]
F Am Bb C
Now it's strange in returning to places of youth
F Am Bb C
It seems your memory has made a mistake
Gm C F Bb
Cause the place that once scared you with white water running
Gm Csus4 C
Has been turned by decree to a lake
F Am Bb C
Makes me think about how too I smoothed out the wrinkles
F Am Bb C
Made the waters as calm as you please
Gm C F Bb
Makes me think about how that river and I
Gm C Fsus4 F
Were both happier when we ran free
[Chorus]
C Bb C
Now the river's not running as fast as it did
F Am Bb C
There's a dam there restricting the flow
Gm C F Bb
And I don't run either as fast as I could
Gm C Fsus4 F
Guess that river and I have grown old
Gm C F
Guess that river and I have grown old
Am Bb F
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