Chords for Dick Gaughan - That's The Way The River Runs

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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ From the depths [Am] of the mysterious world _
[Bb] God sends up a [Am] tiny phantom
_ _ Through [Gm] the rocks of countless _ [F] centuries _ _ _ The [Am] spring to the light, night
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_ [Am] And _ [Dm] _ _ _
the spring [Gm] [Am] becomes a rivulet _ [Bb] And the rivulet becomes _ a [Am] stream _
_ And the stream [Gm] runs down to the [F] river _ _ _ _ [Am] And the river runs by [Dm] the _ village
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ That's the way the [A] river runs _ That's the way [Dm] the river _ [Bb] runs
_ That's the [A] way the river runs _ That's the way [Dm] the river _ [G] runs
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_ [D] _ [G] And every morning [Am] at the crack of dawn _ [Bb] Someone has to fetch [Am] the water
Down [Gm] the river that runs [F] down through it [Am] To cook the bread that feeds the [Dm]
campers he [D] _ [Bb] knows
That's the [A] way the river runs _ That's the way [Dm] the river _ [F] runs
[Gm] That's the way [A] the river _ runs That's the way [Dm] the river _ runs _ _ _ _
Dolores, which is sorrows Si en [G] fuegos, which is [Dm] a hundred fires _
Dolores, si en fuegos Which [G] means the sorrows of a [Dm] hundred fires
Somewhere on a mountain in a village by the river in El Salvador
_ [Am] Si [C] [Eb] en fuegos is the family in the village by the river [Gm] in [Am] El Salvador
[Dm] The _ _ _
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_ fires we [G] light _ _ _ When first [Dm] we learn to stand _ [A] and fight _
_ A hundred [Bb] _ fires to set _ [G] us [C] free _ _ A _ [F] hundred _ fires for _ [Dm] _ [G] liberty _ _
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_ _ _ Si [Gm] en fuegos, which is [Dm] a hundred [A] fires Si _ [F] _ [C]
[Dm] en fuegos, which means the [Bb] warrior _ [F] of a hundred _ [Bb] fires _ _ _
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[F] Fire in the [A] people's blood _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] Fire _ _ _
[F] [C] in the [A] people's heart _ _
[Dm] _ And [Bb] the river joins the people in the village to their neighbors [Dm] in El Salvador _
_ [C] _ [Bb] And the river brings the news of [Gm] every fireside by the river [Dm] in El Salvador _
When _ [D] _ I go to fetch [A] the water I [Bb] see _ [Am] reflected in the river
All [Gm] the faces of the people [F] of El Salvador _ [A] The river takes my [D] tears [Dm] down into the sea
[D] _ From the top of [Am] the mountain from [Bb] those who [Am] fled oppression
_ [Gm] The river runs [D] down [F] the city _ [A] to one who [D] fled starvation
_ _ [Bb] _ That's the way [A] the river runs That's the way the [Dm]
river runs
[C] _ [Bb] That's the way my [A]
children have gone _ The way [Dm] the river _ _ runs
And the river brings the bodies of the people [Bb] who have been murdered [Dm] in El Salvador
_ By _ the [Bb] army and their anger and their hatred of the [F] people [Dm] of El Salvador _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Si en [Gm] fuegos, _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ which means [Gm] the warrior [C] of a hundred [Am] [Bb] fires
_ Fire [F] _ in the [Bb] [A] people's blood [G] _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] Fire _ _ _
[Dm] _ in the [A] people's heart _
_ [Dm] From _ _ the top of [D] the mountain the [Bb] stream runs down [A] to the river
Nothing on [Gm] earth can [F] stop the river _ running [A] down [Am] into [G] the sea
_ _ [D] And the sea becomes [A] an ocean [Bb] joins the oceans over all the [A] world
_ Joins [Gm] the rivers over [F] all the world Joins [A] the countries [Dm] and the people
_ _ [Bb] _ That's the way [A] the river runs That's the way [Dm] the river runs
[Am] _ [Bb] That's how surely [A] the people will be free _ The way [Dm] the river runs
[Bb] _ That's the way [C] the river _ runs [A] That's the way [Dm]
the river _ runs
[Bb] That's the way [F] the [C] river runs [A] That's the way [Dm] the river _ runs
[Bb] That's the wind [C] of [F] Reverend _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Ron.
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