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 
I ain't gonna ride
G 
no rail or hitchhike down no highway
I ain't going nowhere feeling
C 
the way I do
Because my baby's long gone
G 
and nothings going my way
I'm gonna let this muddy water
just wash away my blues.
C 

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

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

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

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

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

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