Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, going

Down and we're out from the days we were born

Come down here with broken hearts and our emotions torn

Off the beaten path to our old stomping grounds

As long as we've been growing up we've been coming

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, going

Down Mackinac, yeah we will have some fun

Get your daddy's old guitar and get your daddy's gun

Big brother will buy the beer, we'll shed a couple rounds

Stack up all the emptiness and then we'll knock them

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, going

Down on our luck and up comes the cost

Everything we do and done and all that we have lost

Empty out our pockets just to get around

The rich they keep on rising while the poor keep falling

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, going

Down go the faces of another dad and mom,

Down goes another soldier to a roadside bomb

I read it in the paper and on the faces of our town

Tomorrow we go to Pekin Illinois to lay him

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, lets go

Down to the river, going

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