Hold Back The River

James Bay

• Dmi7C/EFB♭FB♭FCAmiAmiAmiAmi
  P1:
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• Dmi7C/EFAmiB♭AmiFAmiAmiB♭FCDmi7C/EFAmiB♭AmiFAmiB♭FCAmi
  S1:
  Tried to keep  

  You close to me 

  But life got in  

  Between x-x-x-x x-x-x-x 

  Tried to square  

  Not be--ing there 

  But think that I  

  Should have been x-x-x-x x-x-x-x
• B♭B♭FF
  R1:
  Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes 

  Hold back the river, so I 

  Can stop for a minute and see where you hide 

  Hold back the river, hold back
• Dmi7C/EF
  M1:
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• Dmi7C/EFAmiB♭AmiFAmiAmiB♭FCDmi7C/EFAmiB♭AmiFAmiB♭CAmiF
  S2:
  Once up----on  

  A different life 

  We rode our bikes  

  Into the sky x-x-x-x x-x-x-x 

  But now we crawl  

  A----gainst the tide 

  Those distant days  

  Are flashing by x-x-x-x x-x-x-x
• B♭B♭FFCadd11
  R1:
  Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes 

  Hold back the river, so I 

  Can stop for a minute and be by your side 

  Hold back the river, hold back
• B♭B♭FFCadd11
  R1:
  Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes 

  Hold back the river, so I 

  Can stop for a minute and see where you hide 

  Hold back the river, hold back
• Dmi7C/EFAmiB♭AmiFAmiB♭AmiFC
  M2:
  Hold oh----ho 

  Oh----ho, oh----ho 

  Oh----ho, oh----ho 

  Woa-ho-ho x-x-x-x x-x-x-x
• FFB♭Gmi7FFB♭Gmi7
  B1:
  Lonely water 

  Lonely water, won't you  

  Let us wander 

  Let us hold each other 

  Lonely water 

  Lonely water, won't you  

  Let us wander 

  Let us hold each other --x-x
• B♭B♭FFCadd11
  R1:
  Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes 

  Hold back the river, so I 

  Can stop for a minute and be by your side 

  Hold back the river, hold back
• B♭B♭FFCadd11
  R1:
  Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes 

  Hold back the river, so I 

  Can stop for a minute and be by your side 

  Hold back the river, oh
• FFB♭Gmi7FFB♭Gmi7Cadd11
  B1:
  Lonely water 

  Lonely water, won't you  

  Let us wander 

  Let us hold each other 

  Lonely water 

  Lonely water, won't you  

  Let us wander 

  Let us hold each other
• Dmi7C/EFB♭FB♭FCAmiAmiAmiAmi
  D1:
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