The Oh Hellos – Rio Grande (Guitar)

D#m B F#
(pick)

F#              B
Somewhere down South of here

           D#m           F#          B
There's a woman with an armload of grass

C#              D#m
Weaving a basket

C#       F#       G#m   B
That'll float the Rio Grande

         F#                     B
She'll send her baby on it

    F#               B       G#m
The river running wild and fast

    C#            F#
To curry the favor

   C#            B           G#m
Of whatever pharaoh owns the land

G#4
A seed of an idea

        G#sus   G#4
Like mustard greens

     C#          G#m
Like newborn fingers

G#                     C#
Curled and half asleep

F#
Awake

F#
From her mouth, a vineyard

   D#m                 F#      B
Of swears and hallelujahs entwined

C#                    D#m  G#m
A new wine is vinted

   D#         D#m    G#          B
A blend of sweet commandment

B       F#
Oh, to hell with the semantics

      D#m              G#m
The camel and the cable confide

    C#m       B
The eye of a needle

    F#             B       G#m
Is tall enough to stand inside

G#4
A seed of an idea

        G#sus   G#4
Like mustard greens

     C#             G#m
Like newborn fingers

G#                     C#
Curled and half asleep

F#                               D#m B
Awake with a thunder from underneath

                                    F#
Stretch up and reach through

                                     D#m
The hardest part of me

    D#m
May all our tinfoil idols

      F#             C#
Lay crumpled on the ground

          B     F#
And our prefab Olympus

D#m     B       F#
Divided by the thousand

      F#                  B
Oh, maybe I'm naive for thinking

       D#m           C#          F#
That a mountain so stubborn can move

          C#            G#m
But if I'm a mountain moving

          F#       B       F#
I think maybe you can be, too