Cross the River on Your Own
Standard tuning
Intro:
|G |C |
|G |C |
Verse 1:
G C
I know a way to kill the ripple from your touch
G C
And what if I can only settle for much??
D Em7
It stays with you
D G C
You??re like a sky so drizzly
That I want
DEm7D G C
??Till I take it out on you
Bm7 Bm C
Show me how to keep you in
Chorus:
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I??ll be good to you
D
Don??t let go of your light
Bm
It??s your best friend in the world
C A7
I hope you??ll learn what Heaven knows
C
Who cares if I go??
G
Verse 2:
G C
I know a way to tell the middle from the start
G C
And what if telling makes the brittle fall apart??
D Em7 D G C
In time although my hair turns grey and grizzly
D
Stay with me
Chorus:
G
So we cursed a lot
D C
And I??m ashamed of walking out
D Bm
Oh it??s just too bad, we got stuck in the past
C A7
We??re hiding there in silence now
C
It sounds familiar
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I??ll be good to you
D
I??m off to work
Bm C
But I don??t see you turn
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Bridge:
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Cross the river on your own
Gm7
On the other side
Gm
You wanna go far away
Gmaj7
On the other side
The riverbed
Follow us there
Chorus:
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I??ll be good to you
D
Don??t let go of your light
Bm
It??s your best friend in the world
C A7
I hope you??ll learn what Heaven knows
C
Who cares if I go??
G
So we cursed a lot
D C
And I??m ashamed of walking out
D Bm
And my thoughts are wrought with a shortsighted secret
C
And missing you
A7 C
Why do you cry, Paddy??
Outro:
G
Long as I??ve been alive
Old as I am
D C
I??ve still no plan
D
I??m off to work
Bm C
But I don??t see you turn
A7
My life was OK
C
I was counting my steps
GDC
DBC
AC
G