Riverbank Chords

BPM:      151
Released: March 1981
Album:    Honi Soit
 
 
[Chords]
[Gadd#11 320023]
 
 
Capo: 1 fret
 
 
[Intro]
G
G
Gadd#11
Gadd#11
G
G
Gadd#11
Gadd#11
G
G
A7
A7
G
G
A7
A7
 
 
[Verse 1]
G                       A7
All along the riverbank nobody seems to know,
G                                        A7
They heard nothing, saw even less of the hunger in their souls,
G   A7
G                              A7
Safety first or safety last, I wish I could have helped,
G
Those poor unfortunate widows standing,
A7
Waiting for their sailor boys,
D7
Old Madame Nhu, yes madame knew,
           G   G
Yes madame knew.
 
 
[Verse 2]
G                               A7
Down they came to look around, 'round that riverbank,
    G
For names or numbers or anything they could find,
A7
Written there on the wall,
       A        A7
'Cause somebody seemed to know,
    D7                     A7
But no one was prepared to tell,
C                                    G
Anything they'd learnt to love about long ago,
   A7                                 G       C G
Anything at all they'd learnt to love long ago.
 
 
[Bridge]
         D
With the cold people getting colder,
D
Like babysitters in their graves,
C                                   G
Satisfied as heretic vicars passing on,
G Gadd#11  Gadd#11
G  G
Gadd#11  Gadd#11
Cadd9
Send them running on ahead, picking up the windy trash instead,
Cadd9
Like foulmouthed people, open heart surgery creatures,
Cadd9
Crawling back inside of you.
 
 
[Verse 3]
G                        A7
All along the riverbank, nobody will ever know,
     G
What fools and their monies, what sailors and their honeys,
A7
Got stung one evening there,
           G       C           G
'Cause the stones around their necks,
        A7
Are the stones on the riverbank,
G       C           G         A7
Stones around their necks are stones on the riverbank.
 
 
[Outro]
G  C  G
G  C  G  C  G
G  G  C G
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
G  Gadd#11
(Fade Out)
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