The River

Bruce Springsteen

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  S1:
  I come from down in the valley  

  Where, mister, when you're young  

  They bring you up to do  

  Like your daddy done  

  Me and Mary we met in high school  

  When she was just seven--teen  

  We drive out of this valley  

  Down to where the fields were green  

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  R1:
  We'd go down to the river  

  And into the river we'd dive  

  Oh, down to the river we'd ride  

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• EmiGDCEmiGCGCGG/F♯EmiAmiGC
  S2:
  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 the aisle 

  No flowers, no wedding dress
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  R2:
  That night we went down to the river 

  And into the river we'd dive 

  Oh, down to the river we did ride  

  Yeah, yeah, yeah
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  S3:
  I got a job working construction  

  For the Johnstown Company  

  But lately there ain't been much work  

  On account of the economy  

  Now all them things that seemed so important  

  Well mister they vanished right into the air  

  Now I just act like I don't remember  

  Mary acts like she don't care
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  S4:
  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 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
• EmiCDEmiCGDGG/F♯C
  R3:
  That sends me down to the river  

  Though I know the river is dry  

  That sends me down to the river tonight  

  yeah, yeah, yeah
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  R4:
  Down to the river 

  My baby and I, oh  

  Down to the river we ride 

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