Hold Back The River Chords by James Bay

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm F Bb F Bb F C
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[Verse]
Dm7   Dm      F     Bb    F    
Tried to keep ■ you close to me
         Bb F              Csus4
But life ■  got in between ■    
C Bb    Dm                       
■ Tried to square not being there
                             F    C   
But it's there that I should have been
Bb                                          
Hold back the river let me look in your eyes
     Bb                 
Hold back the river so I
         F                                  
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
                         Bb  
Hold back the river hold back
F Dm   F7     Bb        F7  
■ Once upon a different life
   Bb       F              C   Am
We rode our bikes into the sky ■ 
Dm            F      Bb          F   
But now we're caught against the tide
      Bb      F                 C7 C
Those distant days are flashing by ■


[Chorus]
Bb                                          
Hold back the river let me look in your eyes
Bb                      
Hold back the river so I
    F                                    
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                    C        
Hold back the river hold back
Bb                                          
Hold back the river let me look in your eyes
Bb                      
Hold back the river so I
    F                                       
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
                    F        
Hold back the river hold back
             C   
Oh ohho ohoh ohoh
     Dm   F Bb      
Ohoh hooh ■ ohwhoaho


[Bridge]
F Bb F C7
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[Verse]
F                                   Bb           
Lonely water lonely water won't you let us wander
Gm                    
Let us hold each other
F                                   Bb           
Lonely water lonely water won't you let us wander
Gm7                   
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
Bb                                          
Hold back the river let me look in your eyes
              Bb        
Hold back the river so I
    F                                    
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                    C        
Hold back the river hold back
Bb                                          
Hold back the river let me look in your eyes
          Bb            
Hold back the river so I
    F                                    
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                    C 
Hold back the river oh
F                                   Bb           
Lonely water lonely water won't you let us wander
    Gm7 C              
Let us  hold each other
F      F7           F               Bb           
Lonely water lonely water won't you let us wander
Gm7                   
Let us hold each other


[Outro]
G Dm F Bb F Bb F
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