Down the river Chords by Chris Knight

[Start]

[Intro]
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[Verse]
      Bm      
I was eighteen
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My brother was twentyone
Bm                     
■  One saturday evening
     D                    
When all the work was done
   A                     
We went down to the river
         G                
Had some trot lines to run
Bm               
My brother walter
      D                    
Had a fight the week before
Bm                        
Knocked a boy named wilson
D                         
Through the pool hall door
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They said you don't mess with wilson
G                    
Unless you want a war
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We put the boat in the water
  D                  
I made the engine run
Bm                   
■  Loaded the lantern
D                      
Against the sinking sun
    A                
And my brother walter
G                  
Was loading his gun
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And we went down the river ■ ■ 


[Inst]

[Verse]
D Bm                      
■ Down past the coal docks
        D                
We were running our lines
Bm                        
Heard some drunken boaters
D               
Racing up behind
       A                    
It was Wilson and his cousin
         G                     
They had trouble on their minds
Bm                  
They passed on by us
D                                
Probably going to tend their pots
Bm                       
■  We headed up the river
D                        
With the fish we'd caught
    A                         
But before we made the landing
  G                     
I thought I heard a shot
D    A        Bm   
Back down the river


[Solo]
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[Verse]
                  D             Bm  
My brother Walter fell over the side
                       D                 
I couldn't find him no matter how I tried
A                        
And looked along the bank
               G                     
But I couldn't find where they'd hide
Bm                 
They drug the river
     D                      
They searched it up and down
Bm                    
Couldn't find his body
        D                        
So they decided that he'd drowned
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But I knew better
           G                  
And Wilson bragged around town
Bm                         
So one night I floated down
D                         
Right above wilson's shack
Bm                   
■  I hid in the woods
       D                    
Till I saw him walk out back
        A                 
I put a bullet in his head
    G                        
And dropped him in his tracks
    D  A             Bm   
And we went down the river


[Solo]
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[Verse]
Bm                    
Down below the trestle
          D              
Where the water runs slow
  Bm                     
I chained him to an anvil
    D                
And then I let him go
    A               
And five years later
  G                
I ain't told a soul
Bm                           
And I ain't done much fishing
  D                
I hardly wet a line
Bm                        
■  The death of my brother
         D               
Is still heavy on my mind
          A                       
I've been thinking wilson's cousin
G                          
Better find a place to hide
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'cause I'm going down the river
D        A              Bm   
Yeah I'm going down the river


[Solo]
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Bm7 D Bm7 Bm D Bm D Bm
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[Outro]