Gonna Take a Lot of River chords by The Oak Ridge Boys

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Verse 1
G 
C 
G 
Bm 
G 
F 
C 
G 
C 
 (G major)  (C major)  (G major)  (B minor)  (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (G major) I ain't gonna  (C major) ride
G 
no rail or hitchhike down no high (G major) way
I ain't going nowhere feeling
C 
the way I do  (C major) 
Because my baby's long gone
G 
and nothings going my  (G major) way
I'm gonna let this muddy water
just wash away my blues.
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 2
Gonna take a lot of river,
G 
To keep this broken  (G major) heart afloat,
Gonna take a lot of river
C 
Running all the live long days,  (C major) 
Gonna take the Mississippi,
G 
the Monongahela and the  (G major) Ohio,
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away.
C 
 (C major) 

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Verse 3
Well, I wish I was tug boat pushing and
G 
pulling them  (G major) barges along
Moving on the water with a heart
C 
made of iron and steel  (C major) 
There wouldn't be no women that could
G 
ever take my loving  (G major) and do me wrong
I could work all day with nothing
in the world to feel.
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 4
G 
C 
Gonna take a  (G major) lot of  (C major) river
G 
To keep this broken heart  (G major) afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
C 
Running all the live long days  (C major) 
Gonna take the Mississippi,
G 
the Monongahela and the  (G major) Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away.
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 5
F 
Is she in  (F major) New Orleans
Ab 
Is she a  (A flat major) cajun queen
Bb 
C 
I  (B flat major) wonder what she's doing now  (C major) 
F 
Ab 
But if  (F major) I  know her she's got  (A flat major) rings and furs,
Bb 
G 
struggling  (B flat major) along somehow.  (G major) 
F 
G 
 (F major)  (G major) 

Verse 6
C 
Gonna take a lot of  (C major) river
G 
To keep this broken  (G major) heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
C 
Running all the live long days  (C major) 
Gonna take the Mississippi,
G 
the Monongahela and the  (G major) Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away.
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 7
Gonna take a lot of river
G 
To keep this broken  (G major) heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
C 
Running all the live long days  (C major) 
Gonna take the Mississippi,
G 
the Monongahela and the  (G major) Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river