Capo:  3rd Fret 
 
G (mute)
Take me down to the river 
 
                       D
Where I can hold your body close to mine 
 
     C            D
We'd listen to the rhythm 
 
    C                D
Of that old water rollin 
 
       C           D         G
You can stay with me until the morning light 
 
G
I found you in a Louisiana roadside park 
 
                        D
Beat up, broke down no place left to turn 
 
   C            D         C    D
I took you back to Texas under a harvest moon 
 
    C                D     G
We found a little place to call our own 
 
G
We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years 
 
                        D
Married at the tender age of twenty-one 
 
C              D            C           D
Rollin' down the highways, dirt roads and the byways 
 
C                  D         G
Would you like to drive so I would go shotgun 
 
 
CHORUS 
 
G
We'd go down to the river 
 
                         D
Where I could hold your body close to mine 
 
     C           D
We'd listen to the rhythm 
 
    C                D
Of that old water rollin 
 
       C           D        G
You can stay with me until the morning light 
 
G
Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head 
 
                        D
And has taken my sweet love so far from me 
 
       C            D
Yeah he swept you off to Boulder 
 
        C                  D
Where the air it gets much colder 
 
           C         D       G
Than this southern boy would ever like to see 
 
G
I think of calling you on lonely nights 
 
                    D
When being alone gets the best of me 
 
       C             D
Yeah but this here whiskey bottle 
 
      C       D
Will take me to a place 
 
C          D        G
Where you and I will always be 
 
 
CHORUS 
 
     A
When you came back home everybody said I was a fool  
                                                               
                                      E
'Cause I took you back without a word to say 
 
     D                  E           D            E
But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin' 
 
      D               E         A
And I donÕt give a damn about what those people say. 
 
 
CHORUS 
 
        A
We'd go down to the river 
 
                                      E
Where I could hold your body close to mine 
 
     D           E
We'd listen to the rhythm 
 
    D                E
Of that old water rollin 
 
       D           E           A
You can stay with me until the morning light 
 
     A
I wanna go down to the river 
 
      A
Take me down to the river 
 
     A
I wanna go down to the river 
 
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