The River

	  		
Intro 

F G Am 
F G Em 
F G Am 
F 

Chorus 

C F D Am C 
F D Am Em 

                F          D 
Follow your heart to the water 
Am                     C 
Fill your pockets with stone 
F          D           Am 
Throw your arms around me 
C 
Never let me go 

Verse 

Em                  Am 
You were the first, you wouldn't be the last 
Em                   Am 
What the river took, we could never replace 
F                      D  
And as the pain set in so did the realisation 
Am                    C 
You were never coming home 
F             D 
For nights we lay awake 
Am                   C 
Wishing for answers, hoping against all hope 
F                  D 
And if love could change the course of fate 
Am            C 
These nights, we move mountains 
F                        D              Am 
But as the news filtered down the line, the impact shook us 
C 
Shook us to the core 
F           D                Am         C 
Loss struck like a dagger in our aching hearts 


                F          D 
So follow your heart to the water 
Am                     C 
Fill your pockets with stone 
F          D           Am 
Throw your arms around me 
C 
Never let me go 


C F D C F G 
C F D C F G 

Verse 

Am                         Em 
It's not the years in your life, 
Am                         Em 
It's not the years in your life, 
Am                         F 
It's not the years in your life, 
D                     C 
it's the life in your years 

F         D 
Old soul, so it's said 
Am                     C 
The day we lost is the day I found regret 
F                 D 
Not in the waters that embraced you 
Am                   C 
But in the wake your absence left 


Am C         G 
   Sink into me 
Am C         G 
   Sink into me 

Outro 

F Am C D Am D 
F C G Am 

F             G      Am 
Hold out your hands, sink into me 
F             Em     Am                Em 
Hold out your hands, I'll take you away 
F             G      Am          Em    Am 
Hold out your hands, sink into me 
F                    G                Am 
Hold out your hands, I'll take you away 


Am                   C    Am   G 
Hold out your hands, sink into me 
Am                   C             G 
Hold out your hands, I'll take you away 

F                    G 
Hold out your hands, sink into me 
Am                   C 
Hold out your hands, I'll take you away 
F                    G             Am             C 
Hold out your hands, surrender the weight of this world 

Chorus 

                F          D 
Follow your heart to the water 
Am                     C 
Fill your pockets with stone 
F          D           C 
Throw your arms around me 

                F          G 
Follow your heart to the water 
Am                     C 
Fill your pockets with stone 
F          D           Am 
Throw your arms around me 
C 
Never let me go 

F D Am C F D Am C 
F G Am C 

   F      G    Am 
Never let me go