The River
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The River
By Bruce Springsteen
F#m
I come from down the
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valley where
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Mister when you're
D
young
They
F#m
bring you up to
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do just l
D
ike your daddy
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done
Me and
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Mary we met in high school When
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she was just
F#m
seventeen
We'd
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ride out of the valley down to
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where the fields were green.
Chorus
We'd go
F#m
down to the
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river and
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into the river we'd
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dive
Oh
F#m
down to the
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river we'd
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ride.
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Then
F#m
I got Mary
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pregnant and
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man that was all she
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wrote
And
F#m
for my nineteenth
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birthday I got a union
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card and a wedding
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coat
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We went down to the courthouse and the
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judge put it
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all to
F#m
rest
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No wedding day smiles, no
F#m
walk down the isles No
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flowers no wedding
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dress
Chorus
I
F#m
got a job working con
A
struction for the
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Johnstown Com
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pany
But
F#m
lately there ain't been
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much work on ac
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count of the econo
A
my
Now
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all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they
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vanished right into the
F#m
air
Now I
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act like I don't remember and Mary
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acts like she don't care
But I
F#m
remember us riding in my bro
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thers car
Her body
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tan and wet down by the
D
reservoir
At
F#m
night on them banks I'd
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lie awake and pull her
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close just to feel
every
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breath she'd take
Now those
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memories come back to haunt me they
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haunt me like a
F#m
curse
Is a
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dream a lie if it don't come true or
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is it something worse
that sends me
F#m
down....
#Paul McGinness
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