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
Fm Fm
And the river's gonna wash my sins away
C C
Til I'm born again tomorrow
G
Oh to get over my head
Fm 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
Fm Fm
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
Fm C
Into the river wide I'm runnin'
Fm
And I can't swim
C
But it's alright
G C
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Fm 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
Fm Fm
So if I don't come back again
C C
Go lie beneath the willow
G
'Cause where I carved my name
Fm C C
Is where my soul you'll remainAnd I'll still know
Fm
And I can't swim
C
But it's alright
G C
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Fm 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
Fm Fm
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
Fm C C
Momma knows the lies I'm living
Fm
oh, I can't swim
C
But it's alright
G C
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Fm 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 E7 instead of G, Cm, and G (D7) with a
capo on the 2nd fret for it to sound like the original song.