Down Down The Deep River
Okkervil River
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C Spit into the center of yourG D hometown, there's leaves in the street,Dsus4 and there are friends around youD C G now. All the days of your lifeD Dsus4 D in a line.C G D or the way they seemed by 89...Dsus4 DC G But it's not all right. It's notD Dsus4 D even close to all right. [Chorus]C Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep riverC Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep river [Verse]C G We lie awake at night in a tent and I say,D Tell me about your uncle and his friend because they seem likeDsus4 D C very bad men.G D Well we want to keep away fromDsus4 them.D C Bend in the road back there, weG D Dsus4 D saw the place they go.C G Tell me about the greatest showD or the greatest movie you knowDsus4 or the greatest song that you tapedD C from off the radio.G Play it again and again it cuts offD Dsus4 at the ending though.D C Tell me I'm always gonna be yourG best friend.D Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again?Dsus4 D C All the way down the line toG where the telephone ends come on and shout it on down theD Dsus4 D wire.C G And it's not all right. It's notD Dsus4 D even close to all right. [Chorus]C Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep riverC Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep river [Verse]Continues after the adC And as the rescue party, theG volunteer team,D they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thingDsus4 D they've seen they're standing allC around that tree,G and I'm so sorry that I can't stopD Dsus4 D crying. [Interlude] C G D Dsus4 D x2 [Verse] {Sparse Strumming}C G Shivering from the late fall cold,D I felt like a solid ghost.C I ran and then I couldn't slow.G My father found me though, myD father took me home.Dsus4 D C He said, oh, son, I saw you getG knocked down,D and I ran out I bet your head was spinning.C With that bright pain you stunned, {resume strumming}G when you've only just begun to beD Dsus4 only just beginning. [Verse]D C Tossed in the viper pit, all thoseG feelings and fears,D and all that difficult shit in allDsus4 D those tender years.C There was something in the air;G something gathered in the air.D Something singing in the wind.Dsus4 D C I'll be your fighter and you'llG be my mirror.D And you'll be all right because I'll be right here.Dsus4 D C Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere.G I swear I'll try to not be goingD Dsus4 D anywhere.C G Though it's not all right. It isD still far from all right.D C We'll make it into a choice somehow.G I don't know, but you'll have aD Dsus4 D choice somehow. [Chorus]C Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep riverC We can never go back; we can onlyG rememberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep river [Interlude] C G D Dsus4 D x2 [Verse]C Maybe they told you 'bout theG summer sky,D maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer skyC G or all your friends, all your best, best friendsD are gonna gather around your bed at night.C G Well that'll make it all rightD because it is still so far from allDsus4 D C right.G D Dsus4 D Oh, kid, I know. [Chorus]C Down a hall in your house, down aG road in DecemberD Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep riverC Up the stairs four flights, son;G D can you feel my heart shiver?D Down, down, down the deep river,Dsus4 D down, down, down the deep riverC Waking in the dawn with that dreamG D getting dimmer and dimmer. I said, are we going down, are weC going down are we going down the deep river?G D Oh down the deep river?C Down, down, down down down the deepG D river, down down the deep river Why don't you, why don't you, oh,C G say you still see it son, say you remember?D C O-------h, are we going down, areG we going down, are we going down, are we going downD Are we going down, hey, hey, heyC Are we going down, are we goingG down, are we going down, are we going downD Are we going down the deep river?C Because I know it's scary, baby. [Other]C G D Dsus4 DC G D Dsus4 DC G D Dsus4 DC G D
