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Come Sit By The River chords by The Country Gentlemen

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I could see that you're
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ready to go home
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There's some TV shows
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that you're missing
But you know how an old
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love loves to talk
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And he needs someone
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who will listen

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Verse 2
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Come and sit by the river
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with me for a while
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And I'll tell you a story that's true
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Of when I was a boy playing
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here on the shore
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And the grass was so green
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and the water so blue
Verse 3
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Well our house stood right over there
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Of course they took it down
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for the highway
I can see my moma's tears,
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we've been there for twenty years
And you know we would
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still if I had my way
Verse 4
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In those days you could of
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ten find me here
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With the rest of the niegh
borhood children
There was so much we could do,
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there was fishin' swimmin' too
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There was always some raft that we were
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building
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* Refrain
Interlude 1
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Many years I have watched this river
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flow
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Rolling down from the hills to the ocean
I have seen the waters high,
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almost fierce and rushing by
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I have seen in nearly dry and
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without mo tion
Verse 6
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Now at last you can see what
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it has come to
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Oh we prospered but poisoned
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the waters
Now the turnes have all been played
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and the piper must be paid
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Not by us but our sons and daughters
Outro 1
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