Grass Roots - The River Is Wide guitar chord

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:21:05 -0400

From: Andrew Rogers

Subject: g/grass_roots/the_river_is_wide.crd

                          "The River Is Wide"

                           (Knight - Admire)

Like at least a couple other Grass Roots hits, someone else did this first -

in this case the Forum, whose 1967 semi-hit version I much prefer.

Intro:

F                         Eb/F            F

v  v  v  v    v  v  v  v    v  v  v  v    v  v  v  v

-/-----------|-x--x--x--x--|-/-----------|-/--------X--

               ^^^^^^^^^^ bass drum                 ^ snare

Verse 1:

Bb         Eb/F    Bb        Eb/F

v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v

-/-----/-/---/---|-/-----/-/---/---

Bb    Eb/F  Bb      Eb/F  Bb       Eb/F Bb   Eb/F

The sky was clear on that windy day

Bb            Eb/F Bb       Eb/F Bb          Eb/F Bb   Eb/F

'Til the clear blue sky began to turn to gray

Eb           /Bb   Eb             /Bb   Eb          /Bb  Eb    /Bb

   The lightning flashed, the thunder roared above

F       /C  F       /C       F            /C  F

Then fell a drop of rain to start our love

Chorus:

                      Ebm7                   Ab

[1: Let the river get wide], the river gets long, now

[2: And the river gets wide]

              Dbmaj7                    Bbm

The water runs deep as our love gets strong now

                   Ebm7                 Ab

So baby, don't you fight and say you belong now

1:   Fm7/Bb [hold 2 bars]

2:   Fm7/Bb [hold 6 bars]

3-5: Fm7-5/Cb  Bb

   To me

Verse 2:

Upon the roof we heard the gentle rain

With the rhythm of our heartbeats, down it came

As it hit each drop  our hearts could feel the pain

No one on earth can stop a drop of rain

[repeat chorus 3X; fade 3rd time]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers