Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – River (Guitar)

     G           G/B
The river is my savior

           C             G
Cause she used to be a cloud

       G                 G/B
She's happy just to lay there

         Dsus4           D
When she used to be so proud

     G             G/B          C                 G
And even when she dries up a thousand years from now

      G           Em            D                  G
I'll lay myself beside her and call her name out loud

     G           G/B
The river is my savior

          C             G
The only one I'll ever need

         G                    G/B
Wash my head when I've been sinning

         Dsus4               D
Wash my knuckles when they bleed

    G                G/B
Protect me from my neighbor

           C            G
All this jealousy and greed

           G          Em
Take the body to the delta

          D              G
Hide the weapon in the weeds

             Am7          C
But now I'm tired and a little bit confused

                  G                      D
Regarding what I meant to do and what I did

              Am7            C
The men I've hired they all seem to be afraid of me

      G                                 D
They turn their eyes away from me like kids

      G              G/B
The river hears my secrets

            C           G
Things I cannot tell a soul

           G                  G/B
Like the children that I've orphaned

         Dsus4          D
And the fortune that I stole

      G                   G/B
The neighbor who asked questions

          C                G
Until he washed up on the shore

          G                  Em
But I've done the law some favors

    D             G
So nobody has to know

             Am7          C
Now I'm tired and I just can't get to sleep

             G                                 D
I've been a wolf among these sheep for all my life

            Am7       C
The lake of fire it consumes me in my dreams

           G                              D
And last night I woke up screaming at my wife

     G           G/B
The river is my savior

        C             G
She's running to the sea

         G          G/B
And to reach her destination

       Dsus4          D
Is to simply cease to be

       G                  G/B
And running until you're nothing

          C              G
Sounds a lot like being free

          G                Em
So I'll lay myself inside her

          D            G
And I'll let her carry me