The River chords
Bruce Springsteen

       

            
I come from do

          
wn in the vall

ey,
             
where mister w

           
hen you're you

ng
            
They bring you

            
 up to do, lik

             
e your daddy d

one
       
Me and Mary we

 met in high s

chool,
             
when she was j

        
ust seventeen
            
We'd drive out

              
 of this valle

             
y, down to whe

              
re the fields 

     
were green

            
We'd go down t

      
o the river,
             
and into the r

          
iver we'd dive
            
Oh, down to th

            
e river we'd r

 
ide

            
Then I got Mar

  
y pregnant,
             
and man that w

           
as all she wro

te
            
And for my nin

             
eteenth birthd

              
ay, I got a un

             
ion card, and 

          
a wedding coat
   
We went down t

o the courthou

se,
             
and the judge 

             
put it all to 


rest
            
No wedding day

      
 smiles, no wa

lk down the ai

sle,
             
no flowers, no

         
 wedding dress

              
That night we 

            
went down to t

   
he river
             
and into the r

          
iver we'd dive
            
Oh, down to th

            
e river we'd r

 
ide

                  
 
            
I got a job wo

             
rking construc

              
tion, for the 

             
Johnstown Comp

 
any
            
But lately the

              
re ain't been 

             
much work, on 

             
account of the

      
 economy
     
Now, all them 

things that se

emed so import

ant,
              
well, mister t

             
hey vanished r

             
ight into the 


air
            
Now I just act

 like I don't 

remember;
             
Mary acts like

           
 she don't car

e

            
But I remember

              
 us riding in 

   
my brother's c

ar,
             
her body tan a

              
nd wet down at

     
 the reservoir
            
At night on th

             
em banks I'd l

ie awake,
             
and pull her c

              
lose just to f

         
eel each breat

h she'd take
             
Now those memo

              
ries come back

    
 to haunt me,
             
they haunt me 

      
like a curse
            
Is a dream a l

      
ie if it don't

 come true,
             
or is it somet

     
hing worse?

              
That sends me 

          
down to the ri

ver,
             
though I know 

             
the river is d

ry
              
That sends me 

           
down to the ri

         
ver tonight
           
Down to the ri

             
ver, my baby a

   
nd I,
            
oh, down to th

            
e river we rid


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