Kyla La Grange - The River 

Throughout the song there's a pattern which is fairly easy to work out but not so  
easy to tab, so I'll omit that. Try improvising around the chords and you'll find  
it sounds similar, or listening to the original if you want it to be exact. Either  
way, a brilliant song with some brilliant lyrics, so have fun with it. 

-INTRO- 
C (4 bars) 

-VERSE- 

C                              F                 G                  C 
When I was 10 years old I always needed to be told 
                                F                          G                         C 
That I should not be frightened by the fact that we grow old 
Am                               F                 G                        C 
But as the days slipped by I felt the pressing need to cry 
         Am                 F                  G                          C 
And I quickly understood exactly why they'd had to lie 

C                                 F                          G                           C 
In the daylight I could cope, because the sun seemed full of hope 
                                 F                              G                        C 
I laughed enough for two grown men and learnt I could tell jokes 
      Am                 F                      G                      C 
But sadness has a subtle face and then it came to gloat 
      Am                    F                          G                         C 
We heard about the girl and boy hung by their skipping rope 




[Refrão]
           Am        G  C 
Isn't it too hard to conceive 
                Am          G          C 
Doesn't it bring you to your knees? 
       Am G F        C 
And all I want to do  
        Am                G          C 
is to float with the river so free. 


Now, fear is not a gentle thing although it has no fists 
It crawls down from your thoughts and ties you by your skinny wrists 
Death will take your lips from you so that you cannot kiss 
But fear will leave you screaming out for all the love you'll miss 

And I had a friend who thought he knew exactly where he stood 
A place in heaven's safe for him as long as he did good 
But life and love ran through his veins and opened up his mind 
Now he's got his gun but a new terror sings at night 

Isn't it too hard to conceive 
Doesn't it bring you to your knees 
And all I want to do is to float with the river so free 

And Larkin is the master in this poetry of fear 
But he could never capture what cried darkly in his ears 
And he would understand that though I wrote these words to sing 
These petty verses cannot hope to tell you anything 

Isn't it too hard to conceive 
Doesn't it bring you to your knees 
And all I want to do is to float with the river so free 

So everyday I'll stop these thoughts before they'll take a hold 
Lying in my bed pretending that I won't grow old 
And maybe when I'm 84 I'll sit and sing this song 
Just hope that if I do then this fear is dead and gone 

Isn't it too hard to conceive 
Doesn't it bring you to your knees 
And all I want to do is to float with the river so free 

Isn't it too hard to conceive 
Doesn't it bring you to your knees 
And all I want to do 
Is to float with the river so free 
Is to float with the river so free 
Is to float with the river so free