River chords by Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
   G      G/B
The river is my savior
      C       G
Cause she used to be a cloud
    G         G/B
She's happy just to lay there
     Dsus4      D
When she used to be so proud
   G       G/B     C         G
And even when she dries up a thousand years from now
   G      Em      D         G
I'll lay myself beside her and call her name out loud

Verse 2:
   G      G/B
The river is my savior
     C       G
The only one I'll ever need
     G          G/B
Wash my head when I've been sinning
     Dsus4        D
Wash my knuckles when they bleed
  G        G/B
Protect me from my neighbor
      C      G
All this jealousy and greed
      G     Em
Take the body to the delta
     D       G
Hide the weapon in the weeds

Chorus:
       Am7     C
But now I'm tired and a little bit confused
         G           D
Regarding what I meant to do and what I did
       Am7      C
The men I've hired they all seem to be afraid of me
   G                 D
They turn their eyes away from me like kids

Verse 3:
   G       G/B
The river hears my secrets
      C      G
Things I cannot tell a soul
      G         G/B
Like the children that I've orphaned
     Dsus4     D
And the fortune that I stole
   G          G/B
The neighbor who asked questions
     C        G
Until he washed up on the shore
     G         Em
But I've done the law some favors
  D       G
So nobody has to know

Chorus:
       Am7     C
Now I'm tired and I just can't get to sleep
       G                 D
I've been a wolf among these sheep for all my life
      Am7    C
The lake of fire it consumes me in my dreams
      G               D
And last night I woke up screaming at my wife

Verse 4:
   G      G/B
The river is my savior
    C       G
She's running to the sea
     G     G/B
And to reach her destination
    Dsus4     D
Is to simply cease to be
    G         G/B
And running until you're nothing
     C       G
Sounds a lot like being free
     G        Em
So I'll lay myself inside her
     D      G
And I'll let her carry me