Audra Mae
The River Guitar Chords
G# G#
I've done a bad thing it's okay
G# G#
I'm going down to the river today
C#m C#m
And the river's gonna wash my sins away
G# G#
Til I'm born again tomorrow
D#
Oh to get over my head
C#m G# G#
Make me forget my sorrow
G# G#
I'm going down to the river alone
G# G#
Don't tell mama and daddy I'm gone
C#m C#m
And if they cry when I don't come home
G#
Just lie and tell them I'm funnin'
D#
Whoa to get out of my eyes
C#m G#
Into the river wide I'm runnin'
C#m
And I can't swim
G#
But it's alright
D# G#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
C#m G#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
D# D#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
G#
'Cause a good girl should
G# G#
This old town'll have my skin
G# G#
I can't speak the trouble I'm in
C#m C#m
So if I don't come back again
G# G#
Go lie beneath the willow
D#
'Cause where I carved my name
C#m G# G#
Is where my soul you'll remainAnd I'll still know
C#m
And I can't swim
G#
But it's alright
D# G#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
C#m G#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
D# D#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
G#
'Cause a good girl should
G# G#
When I meet the Lord so kind
G# G#
I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind
C#m C#m
And I'll tell him I wanna know why oh why
G# G#
he's so damned forgivin'
D#
My daddy won't look in my eyes
C#m G# G#
Momma knows the lies I'm living
C#m
oh, I can't swim
G#
But it's alright
D# G#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
C#m G#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
D# D#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
G#
'Cause a good girl should
* The song can also be played using E, Am, and C7 instead of G, Cm, and D# (D7) with a
capo on the 2nd fret for it to sound like the original song.