Frank Turner – Rivers (Guitar)

D                 G
Our history runs down our rivers

G               A       D
Down our rivers to the sea

D                  G
Reminds us of the things that matter

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Home and heart and history

D           G
And all our sins will be forgiven

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Washed away to set us free

D                       G
By the rivers that run through our homesteads

G               A   D
By myth and modal melody

E                              G
I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas

    D                           A
To remind me of what I already know

E                                  G
I traced the shorelines through a thousand estuaries

    D                         A
To remind me an island is my home

                 D
An island is my home

D                G
I traveled far across this country

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Northumberland to Southern Downs

D                 G
I wandered up the rolling Humber

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And down the Thames to London town

D                    G
Countless lives were lived and lingered

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In the Cotswolds, and the Fells

D              G
I left a tapestry called England

G                    A        D
Of life of those who lived it well

E                              G
I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas

    D                           A
To remind me of what I already know

E                                  G
I traced the shorelines through a thousand estuaries

    D                         A
To remind me an island is my home

                 D
An island is my home

D                       G
Round here the sky is a little closer

G               A      D
A little closer to the ground

D                     G
It's hard for someone to get lost here

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Harder still to get found

D                  G
Though I've seen a thousand rivers

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From the Mississippi to the Rhine

D                        G
The only place that I'll lay my hat down

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Is by an English riverside

E                              G
I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas

    D                           A
To remind me of what I already know

E                                  G
I traced the shorelines through a thousand estuaries

    D                         A
To remind me an island is my home

                 G
An island is my home

D                     E
So place your trust into the sea

G                      A
It's kept us safe for centuries

D                        E
It shaped our shores and steadily

G                         A
Its care has brought us, calm

D              E
When I die, I hope to be

G                      A
buried out in English seas

D                 E
So all that then remains of me

G                       A
Will lap against these shores

                     D
Until England is no more