Riverside

Gm F Bb Cm Gm F Cm Gm F Bb I'm going home, to see my friend Cm Bb F In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend Gm F Bb Nothing's bright but everything is pale Cm Bb F And a bruised breeze fills a river man sails Gm F Bb Cm Gm F Cm Gm F Bb Graveyards gums have grown new teeth Cm Bb F Pretty new pearls adorned by pretty new reeds Gm F Bb I twist my tongue and you bend my ear Cm Bb F Light another cigarette and tell me you've had a bad year Eb Gm Slipping through ivory stones Bb F Familiar faces I don't know Eb Gm Channel wine, bitter pride Bb F Designed to satisfy Gm F Bb Cm I drowned these thoughts by the riverside Gm F Cm Gm F Bb The river ink composes poems Cm Bb F Her bridges break and the boatmen punctuate Gm F Bb She teaches me through tides and wakes Cm Bb F Her words are ripples and waves of frosted lakes Eb Gm Slipping through ivory stones Bb F Familiar faces I don't know Eb Gm Channel wine, bitter pride Bb F Designed to satisfy Gm F Bb Cm I drowned these thoughts by the riverside Gm F Cm Gm F Bb I'm going home, to see my friend Cm Bb F In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend Gm F Bb I twist my tongue and you bend my ear Cm Bb F Light another cigarette and tell me you've had a bad year