River Runs Red chords by The Steeldrivers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
    D         C
The thirty-first day of December
    G              D
Three thousand dressed in blue and gray
  D           C
All sons of the Heavenly Father
G          D
Lay in a watery grave

            C   G
And the river runs red
           D  C  G  D
The river runs red

Verse:

   D            C
One shot woke the Tennessee mornin'
   G             D
Soon fire and smoke filled the sky
D               C
Then rain came down with no warning
G               D
As sorrow fell down from all sides


Chorus:

        D
The river runs red
        Am/C
The river runs red
          G
No winners or losers
            D
When you count the dead
          D
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G
The guns have gone silent
            D C G
But the river runs red

D C G D

Verse:

   D        C
Now Rogers was from Alabama
   G           D
And Thomas an old New York town
   D                C
But soon they would die like blood brothers
    G                  D
In the streets where their souls would flow down


Chorus:
         D
The river runs red
       Am/C
The river runs red
          G
No winners or losers
            D
When you count the dead
          D
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G
The guns have gone silent
            C G D
But the river runs red


Bridge:

    F             G
Some say you could see round for miles
                D
And it flowed that way so many years
     F          G
Now the water looks clean and untainted
                 G
But Stones River will never run clear

          D
The river runs red
       Am/C
The river runs red
          G
No winners or losers
            D
When you count the dead
          D
We watch it roll by,
           Am/C
We all bow our heads,
             G
The guns have gone silent
            D C G
But the river runs red

D C G D