The River Of No Return

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 If you listen, you can hear it call : wail-a-ree ! (wail-a-ree)
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 There is a river called The River Of No Return,
 Bm Em  D
 sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free!
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 Love is a trav'ler on The River Of No Return,
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 swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea.
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 (Wail-a-ree) I can hear the river call (no return, no return)
 
 No return, no return (wail-a-ree).
 
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 I can hear my lover call come to me (no return, no return)
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 I lost my love on the river and forever my heart will yearn,
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 Gone, gone forever down The River Of No Return.
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 Wail-a-ree (wail-a-re-e-ee), wail-a-r….ee.
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 He'll never return to me! (no return, no return)
 

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Marilyn Monroe)