G
Take me down to the river
                                     D
Where I can hold your body close to mine
        C               D
We'd listen to the rhythm
      C              D
Of that old water rollin
            C               D             G
You can stay with me until the morning light
G
I found you in a Louisiana roadside park
                                        D
Beat up, broke down no place left to turn
   C                   D              C     D
I took you back to Texas under a harvest moon
       C                    D        G
We found a little place to call our own
G
We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years
                                     D
Married at the tender age of twenty-one
C                    D           C                D
Rollin' down the highways, dirt roads and the byways
C                           D           G
Would you like to drive so I would go shotgun

[Chorus]
G
We'd go down to the river
                                         D
Where I could hold your body close to mine
        C             D
We'd listen to the rhythm
      C              D
Of that old water rollin
           C                D           G
You can stay with me until the morning light
G
Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head
                                         D
And has taken my sweet love so far from me
            C                   D
Yeah he swept you off to Boulder
              C                 D
Where the air it gets much colder
                C                D          G
Than this southern boy would ever like to see
G
I think of calling you on lonely nights
                                  D
When being alone gets the best of me
            C                   D
Yeah but this here whiskey bottle
        C           D
Will take me to a place
C                D          G
Where you and I will always be

[Chorus]
         A
When you came back home everybody said I was a fool
                                                              E
'Cause I took you back without a word to say
       D                        E               D               E
But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin'
        D                          E               A
And I don?t give a damn about what those people say.

[Chorus]
             A
We'd go down to the river
                                                             E
Where I could hold your body close to mine
        D             E
We'd listen to the rhythm
      D              E
Of that old water rollin
           D                E                A
You can stay with me until the morning light
        A
I wanna go down to the river
           A
Take me down to the river
        A
I wanna go down to the river