Stars – Last Of The Riverboats (Guitar)

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The bass progressions G-Gb-Em in the verses and C-B-Am-G-C in the chorus are an important part of the song. I slide the open C chord up one fret to play the chord shown as C#o. [Intro]

 C       G       C       G   C  G
            . . . ooh oohh...

[Verse 1]

          C                Bm
There’s a light across the river and it's

Am        G      Gb
making me dream

         Em          Am
It's the last of the riverboats and it's

D          C
getting up-steam

C                        Bm             Am                G     Gb
I can see it through the willows, I can hear it round the bend

    Em                       A
The birds fly up and they're saying

   D              C
It won't be back again

[Chorus]

        C         G     C              D     G
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes

    C C/B   Am     G/B  C    C#o
And someone throws me a line

         D           C                G   C G
It's the last of the riverboats going home

[Verse 2]

  C                Bm
I dreamed I took a journey

     Am            G        Gb
From Echuca to the lake

Em                  A
  Drinkin on the promenade deck

       D              C
Till I couldn't keep awake

 C               Bm             Am        G     Gb
I woke up with a vision from a different time

Em                    Am            D             C
  When the road was a river and the riverboat was mine

[Chorus]

        C         G     C              D     G
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes

    C  C/B  Am     G/B  C
And someone throws me a line

    C             G          C            G
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans

        C C/B Am    G/B  C   C#o
And the water shows me a sign

         D           C                G
It's the last of the riverboats going home

[Solo] C G C G /Gb Em C Bm C A C A

         D           C                G     C G
It's the last of the riverboats going home

[Verse 3]

 C              Bm      C            G     Gb
Meanwhile we're living, lives we all know

Em                 Am
Paying our tax and breaking our backs

     D               C
With nothing left to show

 C            Bm           Am                   G     Gb
Thinking of a future, of a day that'll come for sure

Em                  Am                      D       C
 We'll take the riverboat and we'll fire it up once more

[Chorus]

        C         G     C              D      G
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes

    C C/B   Am     G    C
And someone throws me a line

    C             G          C            G
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans

        C C/B Am    G/B  C   C#o
And the water shows me a sign

         D           C          D      G   C G
It's the last of the riverboats going home

[Outro]

        C         G      C             D     G
And the Riverboat knows just where the river goes

goes

    C C/B   Am     G/B  C
And someone throws me a line

    C             G          C            G
The steam whistle moans, the paddle wheel groans

        C C/B Am    G/B  C   C#o
And the water shows me a sign

         D           C                G    C  G
It's the last of the riverboats going home

                   G C D G
 . . . . Going home