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Riverbank by John Cale
Riverbank
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:C
Capo:1st fret
BPM: 151
[Chords]
[Gadd#11 320023]
Capo: 1 fret
[Intro]
G
G
Gadd#11
Gadd#11
G
G
Gadd#11
Gadd#11
G
G
A7
A7
G
G
A7
A7
[Verse 1]
G A7
All along the riverbank nobody seems to know,
G A7
They heard nothing, saw even less of the hunger in their souls,
G A7
G A7
Safety first or safety last, I wish I could have helped,
G
Those poor unfortunate widows standing,
A7
Waiting for their sailor boys,
D7
Old Madame Nhu, yes madame knew,
G G
Yes madame knew.
[Verse 2]
G A7
Down they came to look around, 'round that riverbank,
G
For names or numbers or anything they could find,
A7
Written there on the wall,
A A7
'Cause somebody seemed to know,
D7 A7
But no one was prepared to tell,
C G
Anything they'd learnt to love about long ago,
A7 G C G
Anything at all they'd learnt to love long ago.
[Bridge]
D
With the cold people getting colder,
D
Like babysitters in their graves,
C G
Satisfied as heretic vicars passing on,
G Gadd#11 Gadd#11
G G
Gadd#11 Gadd#11
Cadd9
Send them running on ahead, picking up the windy trash instead,
Cadd9
Like foulmouthed people, open heart surgery creatures,
Cadd9
Crawling back inside of you.
[Verse 3]
G A7
All along the riverbank, nobody will ever know,
G
What fools and their monies, what sailors and their honeys,
A7
Got stung one evening there,
G C G
'Cause the stones around their necks,
A7
Are the stones on the riverbank,
G C G A7
Stones around their necks are stones on the riverbank.
[Outro]
G C G
G C G C G
G G C G
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
G Gadd#11
(Fade Out)
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