Rocky Votolato – Red River chords

Artist: Rocky Votolato
Album: True Devotion
Song: Red River
Transcribed by: Chris Sheehy

Tuning: Down a half step

Intro

A5  Ab5  F#5  Ab5  E


Verse
E                                C#mThis is what life is like on the ground
AI had a brother who was stationed up in northern hill county, 
E                       B5no he never really came home
E                                         C#mWe drove out east to red river to see the high water flow
      AThat river was running just searching for an ocean
     E                  B5The freedom he'd never known
       C#mThat feeling you get when the wind is blowing like
        A    your whole life is starting over
              E                         B5We made our peace there in the no mans land
             A5where we come from

Chorus
         EIve been searching for
                C#mThe waves that carried us home
        ATo the ocean we all came from
          E         B5Where we wont be returned
          EIve been searching for
                C#mThe waves that carried us home
        ATo the ocean we all came from
          E         B5Where we wont be dissolved
      Ainto one

Verse
E                                       C#mLike a simple animal running on broken legs that night
     A                                          EHis voice was splintering rising, falling to a fate 
                 B5he'll never get out
E                                       C#mFrom spokane all the way across montana out to the blood reserve
A                                     Black levis jacket knocking them beers back on the 
E             B5bank of that river
C#m                            AUnderneath September skies in south US border
              Ehe made his peace there 
                B5just after his boots 
                Afilled up with water


Chorus
         EIve been searching for
                C#mThe waves that carried us home
        ATo the ocean we all came from
          E         B5Where we wont be returned
          EIve been searching for
                C#mThe waves that carried us home
        ATo the ocean we all came from
          E         B5Where we wont be dissolved

EWaves will wash away 
      C#mthe misguided vision
AGlory in a battlefield 
        E        B5of a thousand corpses
          EIve been searching for
                C#mThe waves that carried us home
        ATo the ocean we all came from
          E         B5Where we wont be dissolved

A      Ab5     F#5   Ab5     EOut of the rain