Matamoros Banks

Intro: D A D

          D        A           
For two days the river keeps you 
   D
down
           A            G         
Then you rise to the light without
   D
 a sound
            D              A 
Past the playgrounds and empty 
              D
switching yards
                     A             
The turtles eat the skin from your 
                  G            D
eyes, so they lay open to the stars

        D                      A  
Your clothes give way to the 
              D
current and river stone
             A                   
'Till every trace of who you ever 
          D
were is gone
          D             A      
And the things of the earth they 
              D
make their claim
           A          G           
That the things of heaven may do 
     D
the same

G                             D
Goodbye, my darling, for your love I
 give God thanks,

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                D          A   
Over rivers of stone and ancient 
         D
ocean beds
             A       G       D
I walk on twine and tire tread
                     D        A   
My pockets full of dust, my mouth 
                   D
filled with cool stone
                A                  
The pale moon opens the earth to 
    D
its bones
    G                          D  
I long, my darling, for your kiss,
                  A            
 for your sweet love I give God 
   D
thanks

       G                        D
The touch of your loving fingertips
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros banks
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             D          A    
Your sweet memory comes on the 
           D
evenin' wind
             A           G        
I sleep and dream of holding you 
           D
in my arms again
                D           A     
The lights of Brownsville, across 
            D
the river shine
               A                   
A shout rings out and into the 
               D
silty red river I dive

    G                          D  
I long, my darling, for your kiss,
                  A            
 for your sweet love I give God 
    D
thanks
    G                         D
A touch of your loving fingertips
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros
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Meet me on the Matamoros banks