Audra Mae
The River Guitar Chords
B B
I've done a bad thing it's okay
B B
I'm going down to the river today
Em Em
And the river's gonna wash my sins away
B B
Til I'm born again tomorrow
F#
Oh to get over my head
Em B B
Make me forget my sorrow
B B
I'm going down to the river alone
B B
Don't tell mama and daddy I'm gone
Em Em
And if they cry when I don't come home
B
Just lie and tell them I'm funnin'
F#
Whoa to get out of my eyes
Em B
Into the river wide I'm runnin'
Em
And I can't swim
B
But it's alright
F# B
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Em B
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
F# F#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
B
'Cause a good girl should
B B
This old town'll have my skin
B B
I can't speak the trouble I'm in
Em Em
So if I don't come back again
B B
Go lie beneath the willow
F#
'Cause where I carved my name
Em B B
Is where my soul you'll remainAnd I'll still know
Em
And I can't swim
B
But it's alright
F# B
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Em B
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
F# F#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
B
'Cause a good girl should
B B
When I meet the Lord so kind
B B
I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind
Em Em
And I'll tell him I wanna know why oh why
B B
he's so damned forgivin'
F#
My daddy won't look in my eyes
Em B B
Momma knows the lies I'm living
Em
oh, I can't swim
B
But it's alright
F# B
'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could
Em B
And if it weren't for him and the love that night
F# F#
I'd be living for the light like a good girl should
B
'Cause a good girl should
* The song can also be played using E, Am, and D#7 instead of G, Cm, and F# (D7) with a
capo on the 2nd fret for it to sound like the original song.