Down The Rio Grande

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Baby pulled her blue dress on and 
   G                D/F#
walked out in the night
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Left one silk stocking danglin’ 
               D/F#
from the bedside light
  D                             
I sobered up and called her name 
  A
just before the dawn
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I followed footprints through the 
           A
sand; I knew where she had gone
              G                 
Down The Rio Grande…Down the Rio 
   A
Grande.


[Verse 2]

  A                         G     
Pulled out of Albuquerque, must 
             D/F#
have been past 8:00
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Four cups of coffee and I hit the
   D/F#
 Interstate
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Rolling through Las Cruces, I 
    A
thought I saw her car
       G                         
She always said she’d go someday, 
      A
she never said how far
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Down The Rio Grande, Down The Rio 
   A
Grande


[Chorus]

 D               G              
Maybe she’s in Brownsville; she’s 
   A
got some family there
 D           G                A
She always talked about the salty 
Gulf Coast air
                 G                 
Where the river ends, Down The Rio 
 A
Grande


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[Verse 3]

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Saw an old grey heron flyin’ south
             D/F#
 against the wind
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Storm clouds over Juarez rollin’ 
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down to the Big Bend
    D                           
I called her name in Esperanza’s 
  A
dusty desert rain
     G                             
But who knows what the hell I’d say
    A
 if I found her again
            G                  A
On the Rio Grande…On the Rio Grande


[Verse 4]

  A                           G   
Turned south on highway 90, skies 
         D/F#
began to clear
A                           
Black mountains out ahead red 
  G                D/F#
sundown rearview mirror
  D                            A
Haunted by her dark wet skin, movin’
 next to mine
   G                               
I swore that things would change if
           A
 I could hold her one more time
              G               A
On the Rio Grande…On the Rio Grande


[Chorus]

D               G                 
Maybe she’s in Brownsville; she’s 
A
got some family there
 D           G                A
She always talked about the salty 
Gulf Coast air
                 G                 
Where the river ends, Down The Rio 
 A
Grande


[Verse 5]

  A                            G  
Bought a bottle in Del Rio I 
              D/F#
pulled out off the road
A                              
Spent the night a starin’ at the 
   G         D/F#
lights of Mexico
     D                        
I walked down to border bridge 
   A
around the break of day
    G                            
I threw that empty bottle off and 
  A
watched it float away
               G                 
Down the Rio Grande… Down the Rio 
  A
Grande.


[Verse 6]

D                     G          
Now I’m on my way to Brownsville 
        A
in the Gulf of Mexico
D                     G           
Just like that empty bottle I may 
 A
sink or else I’ll flow
              G                
To the rivers end …Down the Rio 
    A
Grande


[Verse 7]

 A                               
Baby pulled her blue dress on and 
   G               D/F#
walked out in the night
              G                  
Down the Rio Grande… Down the Rio 
  A
Grande