"Down at the Riverside" by Waterdeep
From the album "Sink Or Swim"
Written by Don Chaffer on 7/26/95 at 16:15
Copyright © 1997 Hey Ruth Music
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Transcribed by T-rev http://www.t-rev.net
In D (capo 7 in G) on standard-tuned six-string acoustic. Beautiful,
beautiful, sad song...with a hopeful ending.
intro/verse (repeat until verse ending, flat-picking)
X32030 Cadd9
X20030 Gsus6/B
200230 Dadd9/F#
320030 Gsus6
verse ending (leading into chorus)
200230 Dadd9/F#
020030 Em7
short chorus
X32010 C (strum these three chords once each)
X02010 Am7
X00232 D/A
320030 Gsus6 (back to flat-picking)
X32030 Cadd9
320030 Gsus6
X00232 D(sus4)
verse 2 same as verse 1
long chorus (strumming)
X32010 C
X02010 Am7
X00232 D/A
320033 G
X32033 Cadd9 (note different fingering)
320033 G
X32033 Cadd9
320033 G
X32033 Cadd9
320033 G
X00232 D/A
bridge
022000 Em
X32010 C
022000 Em
X32010 C
X00233 Dsus4/A (flat-picking)
X00232 D/A
short chorus (strumming from here on)
X32010 C
X02010 Am7
X00232 D/A
320033 G (switch from 6/8 to 4/4 time here)
X32033 Cadd9
320033 G
X00232 D/A(sus4)
tag (three times, then end)
X32010 C
320033 G
X00232 D/A
end
020032 Em7add9 (back-strum once)
INTRO
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
|--------------0--------|--------------0--------|
|------3-----------3----|------------------3----|
|------------0----------|----------0-0---------0|
|2---------------------0|0----------------------|
|3----------------------|2----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------3----------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|----------------------0|
|0-------0-0-------0---0|------0---------0------|
|0---------------0---0--|----------2-0h2--------|
|------------0h2--------|3----------------------|
VERSE
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
|--------------0--------|--------------0--------|
|------3-----------3----|------3-----------3----|
|----------0-----------0|----------0-----------0|
|2----------------------|0----------------------|
|3----------------------|2----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
|--------------0--------|--------------0--------|
|------3-----------3----|------3-----------3----|
|-----------------------|----------------------0|
|0---------0-----------0|----------0------------|
|0----------------------|2----------------------|
|-----------------------|3----------------------|
Transcribed 1/19/1999 by T-rev
More tab available at http://www.t-rev.net
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VERSE 1
They sat near one another at the water's edge
I'll say they because we is too hard to say
And he told her what he'd come so far to tell her
With tears in her eyes she said it can't be that way
He felt like his wells were dried
CHORUS
And I left the ring down at the riverside
VERSE 2
He sat staring at the water for a long time leaning on his hand
He was going through the things that he was wondering
The air was fairly still like the calm before the storm
No one would have guessed the rain there was no distant thundering
He still felt a long ways away inside
CHORUS
And I left the ring down at the riverside
BRIDGE
Should I tell them how he cried
Should I tell them how you held me my never-bride
CHORUS
And how I left the ring down at the riverside
The riverside
TAG
One like where believers stood for John to baptize them
I'm going down to die but I'll be coming up alive then
I'm going down to die but He'll bring me up alive then
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