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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