THE RIVER

Bruce Springsteen

Tempo: 115 - Intro played by acoustic and harp:

	Em	G
I	come from down in the	valley

	D	C
Where	mister when you're	young

	Em	G	C	G
They	bring you up to	do	like your daddy	done

	C
Me and	Mary we met in high school

	G	D/F#	Em
When	she was just	seven	teen

	Am	G	C
We'd	ride out of that valley down to	where the fields were	green

One bar pause, the the whole band begins to play

Then I got Mary pregnant

And man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse

And the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down in the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

Chorus

Solo (harp) over 1 Verse, starts like intro

Hammond organ starts playing chords lying around note e

But I remember us riding in my brother's car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each other breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me

They haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse

Chorus

Down to the river

My baby and I

Oh down the river we'd ride

at least 2 x on Chorus, then one chorus instrumental and end

Tablature of the intro for diatonic G-harp

v = pull, ^ = blow, \ = bend

/---\
6 6 6 7 8 9 9 8 6  9 9 8 9 6 6
v v v v ^ ^ v ^ v  ^ v ^ v v v
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