Key: G major
Intro 1
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C
Em
D
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Em
D
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Verse 1
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C
I met you in 82,
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D
over a crate of beer and not a few
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C
I cracked a can and so did you,
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D
we're gonna change the world
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C
The ghetto kings of downside town
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C
Doing anything that we found,
Em
D
and on the river flowed
Pre-chorus 1
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C
You'd take a drink
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D
from the Reverend Jimmy Jones
G
C
Yeah, you'd cross the street
Em
D
on the path the gunman roams
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C
Thrown aside and left to waste,
Em
D
that was you, you knew your place
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C
Wander round, get off your face,
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D
and on the river flowed
Chorus 1
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We the undertow
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C
We the undertow
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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C
Oh, I don't know how you made it through
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D
all the smoke and brew you do
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C
But It sure has left its mark on you,
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D
but you're still with us today
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C
Life goes on and round we go
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D
and words can kill the things I know
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C
Often you cut me deeply so,
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D
but on the river flows
Pre-chorus 2
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C
And you'd set the table
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D
for the barber Sweeney Todd, yeah
G
C
Em
D
You'd clip the wings off of any rising god
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C
Man can't live on hope alone,
Em
D
it can be cut, all that is grown
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C
Broke your spirit but not your bones,
Em
D
and on the the river flows
Chorus 2
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D
C
We the undertow
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D
C
We the undertow
Interlude 2
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Interlude 3
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Bridge 1
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide has covered your face
And there's nothing you can do
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me so far or leave me dead
Outro 1
And all you said was true
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Na-na-na...
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Na-na-na...
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The river flows, oh
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ChordsG C Em D A
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