{t:The River } {st:By Bruce Springsteen } [F#m]I come from down the [A]valley where [E]Mister when you're [D]young They [F#m]bring you up to [A]do just l[D]ike your daddy [A]done Me and [D]Mary we met in high school When [A]she was just [F#m]seventeen We'd [E]ride out of the valley down to [D]where the fields were green. {c:Chorus } We'd go [F#m]down to the [A]river and [E]into the river we'd [D]dive Oh [F#m]down to the [A]river we'd [E]ride. [D] Then [F#m]I got Mary [A]pregnant and [E]man that was all she [D]wrote And [F#m]for my nineteenth [A]birthday I got a union[D] card and a wedding [A]coat [D]We went down to the courthouse and the [A]judge put it [E]all to [F#m]rest [E]No wedding day smiles, no [F#m]walk down the isles No [A]flowers no wedding [D]dress {c:Chorus } I [F#m]got a job working con[A]struction for the [E]Johnstown Com[D]pany But [F#m]lately there ain't been [A]much work on ac[D]count of the econo[A]my Now [D]all them things that seemed so important Well mister they [A]vanished right into the [F#m]air Now I [E]act like I don't remember and Mary [D]acts like she don't care But I [F#m]remember us riding in my bro[A]thers car Her body [E]tan and wet down by the [D]reservoir At [F#m]night on them banks I'd [A]lie awake and pull her [D]close just to feel every [A]breath she'd take Now those [D]memories come back to haunt me they [A]haunt me like a [F#m]curse Is a [E]dream a lie if it don't come true or [D]is it something worse that sends me [F#m]down.... #Paul McGinness