River

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[Verse]
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I was born in the path of the winter wind
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Raised where the mountains are old
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Their springtime waters came dancing down
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I remember the tales they told

[Verse]
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The whistling ways of my younger days
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Too quickly have faded on by
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But all their memories linger on
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Like the light in a fading sky

[Chorus]
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River take me along
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In your sunshine, sing me a song
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Ever moving and winding and free
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You rolling old river, you changing old river
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Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea

[Verse]
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I've been to the city and I've been back again
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I've been moved by some things that I've learned
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Met a lot of good people and called them friends
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Felt the change when the seasons turned

[Verse]
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I've heard all the songs that the children sing
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And I've listened to love's melodies
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I've felt my own music within me rise
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Like the wind in the autumn trees

[Chorus]
   Am Bb       C
River take me along
        F  Am     Bb        C
In your sunshine, sing me a song
     Bb         C           F
Ever moving and winding and free
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You rolling old river, you changing old river
      Bb          C                      Bb     F
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea

[Verse]
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Some day when the flowers are blooming still
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Some day when the grass is still green
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My rolling waters will round the bend
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And flow into the open sea

[Verse]
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So here's to the rainbows that followed me here
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And here's to the friends that I've known
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And here's to the song that's within me now
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I will sing it where'er I go

[Chorus]
   Am Bb       C
River take me along
        F  Am     Bb        C
In your sunshine, sing me a song
     Bb         C           F
Ever moving and winding and free
    Bb          F          Bb           F
You rolling old river, you changing old river
      Bb          C                      Bb     F
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea

[Chorus]
    F  Am Bb       C
Oh, river take me along
        F  Am     Bb        C
In your sunshine, sing me a song
     Bb         C           F
Ever moving and winding and free
    Bb          F          Bb           F
You rolling old river, you changing old river
      Bb          C                      Bb F Bb F Bb   F
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.......