Hold Back The River   in  A                   James Bay           CAPO 3

 

 

 

A             A              D            A

Tried to keep you close to me,

       D           A        E        /

But life got in between

A             A                 D          A

Tried to square not being there

          D                  A                      E        /

But I think that I should have been

 

D                                               E                  A

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes

A                                   E

Hold back the river so I

         D                                         E                         A                              E                  A

Can stop for a minute and ( 1. see where you hide )                   ( 2. be by your side )

A                                            E        A   /

Hold back the river, hold back

                             

 

 

A             A     D             A

Once upon a different life

        D             A                      E     /

We rode our bikes into the sky

         A           A          D               A

But now we crawl against the tide

              D          A                           E     /

Those distant days are flashing by

 

 

             CHORUS:    X  2

 

 

A       A      D       A

Ooh oho, oho, oho,

  D       A       E    /

Oho, oho, ohooh

 

 

BRIDGE:                   A             /        /           /                        D         /    

Lonely water, lonely water won't you let us wander

             Bm               /

Let us hold each other

A               /        /            /                       D          /

Lonely water, lonely water won't you let us wander

             Bm               /

Let us hold each other

 

 

CHORUS:   

 

 

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