Billy Strings – Love And Regret (Guitar)

E
Down by the river

B7
The water’s cold

E         E7                 A      Am
Used to have a girl but that’s alright

E           C#m           C 
She came to me in a dream

            B                    E     Am E B7
And slipped away like a running stream

E
The hours of silence

B7
In the light of the moon

E         E7         A   Am
Brings to me a sense of ease

E               C#m                C 
There’s nothing else that I could do

         B              E      Am E B  C 
For that woman won't be pleased

C#m
I see her running

G#m
But I’m not the same

A
I’ve chased after pleasure

           E   E7
To bury my pain

C#m
But it’s resurrected

G#m
When I say her name

A                                 B
My love and regret are one in the same

E
The scream of a raven

B7
The screech of an owl

E               E7            A  Am
A heartbroke and lonesome coyote howl

E                  C#m                     C 
Those old Hartford records that we used to play

        B                     E   Am   E  B7
And the silence when she went away

E       B7
A flower illustrated in bloom

E
Floating on a wisp of consciousness

E7                  A
She rides innocently down the river to

Am
The place where the light lives

E                                    C#m
And shrugs off enchantment with a sigh

                 C 
Dreaming from the first moment of her life

B                     E
Unheard songs bathed in silver ring out as

 B7                    E
Morning rolls into the endless

C#m
I see her running

G#m
But I’m not the same

A
I’ve chased after pleasure

E
To bury my pain

C#m
But it’s resurrected

G#m
When I say her name

A                                  B   
My love and regret are one in the same

E
I keep wandering back

B7
To a place in my mind

E                E7                    A   Am
Where moonlight reflections return to her eyes

E              C#m            C 
To gaze at the water once more

        B                    E Am E B7
Before turning again to the sky

E
Down by the river

B7
The water’s cold

E        E7                  A     Am
Used to have a girl but that’s alright

E           C#m           C 
She came to me in a dream

            B                   E     Am E Am E
And slipped away like a running stream