The Motherlode Chords

Capo 2
 
[Intro]
D(add2)  E  (2x)
 
[Verse]
C#m                    E
Counting the winters, numb to the cold
C#m                        E
Searching the valley, for secrets untold
      C#m                       E
The mountains are children, to someone so old
   D(add2)                   E
A king without kingdom or throne
D(add2)                   E
Digging the mud and the stone
C#m                         E
All men have left here but you have remained
        C#m                   E
At the banks of the river, forever the same
 C#m                             E
Though no water flows here, the memory stays
   D(add2)                   E
As long as it stays you are here
D(add2)                  E
Heartbroken year after year
 
[Chorus 1]
E  B   A         E   E            B         A         E
People running away, running like strangers day after day
C#m        E
Leave him alone
B  C#m B C#m D  C#m  B   C#m  A       E
Golden river running from her home
 
[Verse]
    C#m                  E
The sun was an altar, before which he knelt
     C#m                        E
And raised up the dagger, that hung from his belt
    C#m                            E
He cursed his delusions and the sadness he felt
 D(add2)                E
Weeping at what he'd become, 
       D(add2)                  E
just a fool in the gold of the sun
 
[Chorus 2]
E  B   A         E   E            B         A         E
People running away, running like strangers day after day
C#m        E
Leave him alone
B  C#m B C#m D  C#m  B   C#m  A
Golden river running from her home  (4x)
 
[Ending]
E
X