Moody River    (midi)

 

G – Em   G – Em    G                     - Em  G                     - Em
                                  (Moody river.              Moody river)
 
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     Moody river, more deadly      than the vainest knife,
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    Moody river, your muddy water took my baby's life.
 
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1. Last Saturday evenin' came to the old oak tree,
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    it stands beside the river where you were to meet me.
 
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2. On the ground your glove I found with a note addressed to me
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    It read "Dear love, I've done you wrong, now I must set you free".
 
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3. "No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin,
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    I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend".
 
+ CHORUS
 
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4. I looked into the muddy water and what could I see?
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    I saw a lonely, lonely face just    lookin' back at me.
 
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5. Tears in his eyes and a prayer on his lips,
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    and the glove of his lost love     at his fingertips.
 
+ CHORUS      + G – Em     G – Em  …….
 
(orig.=capo 1st; midi=no capo in F-Dm...)    (Pat Boone)