Gonna take a lot of river
F - G - G7 -
C
C G
1. I ain’t gonna
ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway,
G C
I ain’t
going nowhere feeling the way I do.
C G
Because my baby’s long gone
and nothings going my way,
G C
I’m gonna
let this muddy water just a-wash away my blues.
C G
It’s gonna take a lot of river to keep this
broken heart a-float,
G
C
gonna take a lot of
river running all the live long day.
C G
Gonna take the Mississippi, the
Monongahela and the Ohio
G C
gonna take a lot of
river to wash these blues away.
C
2. Well, I wish I was a tugboat a-pushing
G
and
a-pulling them barges along
G
C
moving
on the water with a heart made of iron and steel.
C
There wouldn’t be no woman that could ever take
G
my
love and then do me wrong,
G
C
I could work all day with
nothing in the world to feel.
+ CHORUS
F G#
+ Is she in New Orleans,
is she a Cajun queen ?
A# C
I wonder what she’s doing now.
F G#
But if I know her she’s got
rings and furs,
A# F - G - F - G
struggling
along someho.....w.
+ CHORUS (2x)
G C
+ It’s gonna take a lot of river to wash these blues away !
+ F - G - G7
- C
(The Oak Ridge Boys)