The Riverflow
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Written by the Levellers, for the "Levelling The Land" LP.
Trans. by Alan Bigham, 5/2/99. This song doesn't
seem to work that well without the fiddle or bass, so I've transcribed chords
as if it was played on a sole acoustic. I don't know if this is how they play
it acoustically.
INTRO:
G C Em D x4
VERSE I:
G C Em D
I met you in '82, over a crate of beer and not a few
G C Em D
I cracked a can and so did you, we're gonna change the world
G C Em D
The ghetto kings of downside town - the estates and parks of our hallowed ground
G C Em D
Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed
You'd take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones
You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams
Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you - you knew your place
Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed
CHORUS:
Em G D C
On and on the river flow - we the undertow
Em G D C
On and on the river flow - we the undertow
G C Em D x4
VERSE II:
Oh I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do
It sure has left its mark on you but you're still with us today
Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know
Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows
You'd set the table for barber Sweeney Todd
You'd clip the wings off of any rising god
Man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut, all that is grown
Broke your spirit but not your bones, and on the river flows
CHORUS
G C Em D x4
A G A G X4 (not entirely sure about this bit)
N/C
You're working now - forced to the race
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide had covered your face
Nothing you could do
But I still remember the day you said
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me far or leave me dead
And all you said was true
G C Em D
On and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on
G C Em D
On and on, and on and on, and on the river went
G C Em D
On and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on
G C Em D
On and on, and on and on, and on the river flowed
