Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse i

Down by the river, by the boats

 Where everybody goes to be alone

Where you won't see any rising sun

Down to the river we will run

Verse ii

When by the water we drink to the dregs

Look at the stones on the river bed

I can tell from your eyes

You've never been by the riverside

Verse iii

Down by the water the riverbed

Somebody calls you, somebody says

Swim with the current and float away

Down by the river everyday

Chorus

Oh my God, I see how everything is torn in the river deep

 And I don't know why I go the way down by the riverside

Verse iv

When that old river runs past your eyes

 To wash off the dirt on the riverside

Go to the water so very near

 The river will be your eyes and ears

Verse v

 I walk to the borders on my own

Fall in the water just like a stone

Chilled to the marrow in them bones

Why do I go here all alone?

Chorus

  Oh my God, I see how everything is torn in the river deep

 And I don't know why I go the way down by the riverside

Chorus

 Oh my God, I see how everything is torn in the river deep

 And I don't know why I go the way down by the riverside

Outro

Oh, oh, I

Oh, oh, I

Oh, oh, I

Down by the riverside

Down by the riverside

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