Chord/Tab song: Up the River

Chord,Tablature, lyric, sheet, guitar, ukulele song: Up the River - ( UP THE RIVER - LAURA VEIRS As Tabbed by seboddos aka zap...)

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UP THE RIVER - LAURA VEIRS

As Tabbed by seboddos aka zappy the koala

Riff
[Gm] [Bb] [A] [Gm]

E |-6-3---3---------------------------------------------------|
B |-----6----------------------------------6-----------8------|
G |---------6--7-6-7---------------------7-----7-----6--------|
D |-5---5---5------5-----5---5---5---8-8-----8---7-7----------|
A |-----------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------3---3---3------------------------------|

( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/l/laura_veirs/up_the_river_tab.html )
Verse
Riff
[Bb]Billy was a young[A4] man gone astra[Gm7]y
[Bb]Bottle at his lip[A4]s all night and[Gm7] day

Chorus
[Bb]Mama said they're gonna send you up the[A4] river some[Gm7]day
Mama said they're gonna send you up the river someday

Verse
Whiskey ate big holes in Billy's head
Summer's day he shot spud murphy dead

Chorus

He said I'm headed up the river as he watched the blood pour red
I'm headed up the river as he watched the blood pour red

Mama asked lord jesus what to do at the door came knocking boys in blue
We're gonna send him up the river and make him pay his dues ma'am

And so she watched him round that riverbend go billy felt a chill pass 'cross him
Cold they sent him up the river to turn a young man old

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Chord: Up the River - tab, song lyric, sheet, guitar, ukulele
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