(I decided to put the chords up because no-one else has yet. I personallly think this
song sounds better with capo on the second fret. And when you start the song hammer on the
E string twice)
Capo 2nd
[Intro]
G C D Em C D G
[Verse 1]
G C
Baby's gone and i don't know why
D Em
She headed out this morning
C
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
D G
She left me without warning
G C
Sooner than the dogs could bark
D Em
Faster than the sun rose
C
Down to the banks in an old mule cart
D G
She took a flat boat 'cross the shallows
[Chorus]
C
Left me in my tears to drown
D Em
She left a baby daughter
C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown
D G
She's crossing muddy waters
[Verse 2]
G C
Tobacco standing in the fields
D Em
Be rotten come november
C
And a bitter heart will not reveal
D G
A spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine
Hair black as a raven
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she'd been saving
C
Left me in my tears to drown
D Em
She left a baby daughter
C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown
D G
She's crossing muddy waters
[Chorus]
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In a rush of wind and a river song
I can hear my true love moaning
Crying for her baby child
Oh crying for her husband
Crying for that rivers wild
To take her from her loved ones
[Verse 3]
C
Left me in my tears to drown
D Em
She left a baby daughter
C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown
D G
She's crossing muddy waters
C
Now the river's wide and deep and brown
D G
She's crossing muddy waters
