Cowboy Junkies – River Waltz (Guitar)

C
I'm going to find me a dying river 

      F
I'll fold you in two and I'll carry you away 

     C
to a place where your headwaters will flow 

                      G
clean through to your mouth. 

    C
In return I'll request a small sanctuary

       F
by her banks where we will live 

         C
she will water our garden 

                            G
and clean the dirt from our skin.

             F
As the world clamours at our door 

        G                      C
we will dance and not let them in.

    C
And if one day we wake up to a bed dry as a bone 

F
find our river stolen find our sanctuary gone

        C
we will stand and take stock and be grateful 

                   G
for what we've not lost.

        C
We will pack up our bags, pack our small family 

F
head across the valley to where the aspen trees 

C
shiver as they ascend - 

                          G
the green hills rising to blue. 

       F                            G
At the edge of the chopping we will turn 

             C
and bid fond adieu.

F                  C
All that I know to true 

                     G
is the touch of your hand on my skin. 

F                        C
One look from you can so easily soothe 

         G
all this turmoil within. 

      Dm
As we dance cheek to cheek 

         Am
with our feet so completely 

C                        G
locked in a time all our own.

Dm
I stop to speak 

    Am
but you gently keep me 

C                     G
moving in time to the song.

         F             C           G
And in a voice that is sloppy with gin 

                       C
you say, let the world spin.

     F
I'll fold you in two and I'll carry you away 

     C
to a place where your headwaters will flow 

                      G
clean through to your mouth. 

   C
In return I'll request a small sanctuary

       F
by her banks where we will live 

         C
she will water our garden 

                            G
and clean the dirt from our skin.

             F
As the world clamours at our door 

        G                      C
we will dance and not let them in.