[Intro]
C Am F C F# Am F C
[Verse 1]
C Am
Are you tired of shame and secrets
F C
wishing you could let them go?
F# Am
Do you feel like an orphan searching
F C
for a home?
C Am
There’s a love that fills what’s empty
F C
There’s a place you can be changed
F# Am
There’s a God who knows you
F
He’s calling out your name
[Chorus]
C Am
Come on down to the river
F
Come be washed in
C
the Blood And your
F# Am
sin will be forgiven by the
F C
power of His love
C
Come be changed by
Am F C
the mercy that makes all things new
F#
There the lost get
Am F C
found come on down, down down To the river!
[Instrumental]
C Am F C F# Am F C
[Verse 2]
C Am
It flows like the Mississippi
F C
from the giver of endless grace
F# Am
Everyone is welcome here to
F C
drive into the waves
C Am
So leave the questions far behind you
F C
leave your past back on the shore
F# Am F
And run with wild abandon, wait no more!
REPEAT [Chorus]
[Bridge]
Dm
Every burden, every scar let the
Am F#
waters wash away
Dm
No matter who you were before
F
You belong to Christ today
[Refrain]
C
As I went down to the river to pray studying
F# C
about that good ol’ way
F#
And who shall wear the robe and crown; good Lord
F C
show me the way
F# C
O sister let’s go down, let’s go
F C
down, come on down
F# C
O sister let’s go down,
C F C
down to the river to pray
[Chorus 2]
D Bm
Come on down to the river come be
G D
washed in the Blood And your
A Bm
sins will be forgiven by the
G D D
power of His love Come be changed by
Bm G D
the mercy that makes all things new
A Bm G D
There the lost get found come on down, down, down To the river!
[Outro]
D Bm G D
