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Come Sit By The River
Recorded by Bluegrass Martins
Written by Charles Roehrig

C                     G7          C
I can see that you're ready to go home
                F                C
There's some TV show that you're missing
                            F        C
But you know how an old man loves to talk
                 G7           C
And he needs someone who will listen

         F                     C
Come and sit by the river with me for a while
                    F            G7
And I'll tell you a story that's true
        C                   F           Dm
Of when I was a boy playing here on the shore
        C                          G7       C
And the grass was so green and the water so blue

                     G7         C
Well our house stood right over there
                       F                C
Of course they took it down for the highway
                                     F                C
I can see my momma's tears we'd been there for twenty years
                      G7                C
And you know we would still if I had my way

                        G7            C
In those days you could often find me here
                     F            C
With the rest of the neighborhood children
                                        F                C
There was so much we could do there was fishing swimming too
                      G7                C
There was always some raft that we were building

Repeat #2

                  G7                 C
Many years I have watched this river flow
                      F            C
Rolling down from the hills to the ocean
                                   F                C
I have seen the waters high almost fearsome rushing by
                      G7              C
I have seen it nearly dry and without motion

                    G7              C
Now at last you can see what it has come to
                       F            C
So we've prospered but poisoned the waters
                                           F             C
Now the tunes have all been played and the piper must be paid
          G7               C
Not by us but our sons and daughters

Repeat #2

                            F           Dm
Of when I was a boy playing here on the shore
        C                          G7       C
And the grass was so green and the water so blue

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