Audra Mae
The River Guitar Chords
C# C#
I've done a bad thing it's okay
C# C#
I'm going down to the river today
F#m F#m
And the river's gonna wash my sins away
C# C#
Til I'm born again tomorrow
G#
Oh to get over my head
F#m C# C#
Make me forget my sorrow
C# C#
I'm going down to the river alone
C# C#
Don't tell mama and daddy I'm gone
F#m F#m
And if they cry when I don't come home
C#
Just lie and tell them I'm funnin'
G#
Whoa to get out of my eyes
F#m C#
Into the river wide I'm runnin'
F#m
And I can't swim
C#
But it's alright
G# C#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
F#m C#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
G# G#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
C#
'Cause a good girl should
C# C#
This old town'll have my skin
C# C#
I can't speak the trouble I'm in
F#m F#m
So if I don't come back again
C# C#
Go lie beneath the willow
G#
'Cause where I carved my name
F#m C# C#
Is where my soul you'll remainAnd I'll still know
F#m
And I can't swim
C#
But it's alright
G# C#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
F#m C#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
G# G#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
C#
'Cause a good girl should
C# C#
When I meet the Lord so kind
C# C#
I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind
F#m F#m
And I'll tell him I wanna know why oh why
C# C#
he's so damned forgivin'
G#
My daddy won't look in my eyes
F#m C# C#
Momma knows the lies I'm living
F#m
oh, I can't swim
C#
But it's alright
G# C#
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
F#m C#
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
G# G#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
C#
'Cause a good girl should
* The song can also be played using E, Am, and F7 instead of G, Cm, and G# (D7) with a
capo on the 2nd fret for it to sound like the original song.