Red River

artist : rocky votolato album : true devotion song : red river transcribed by : chris sheehy tuning : down a half step Intro A5 G#5 F#5 G#5 E Verse E C#m this is what life is like on the ground A i had a brother who was stationed up in northern hill county , E B5 no he never really came home E C#m we drove out east to red river to see the high water flow A that river was running just searching for an ocean E B5 the freedom he’d never known C#m that feeling you get when the wind is blowing like A your whole life is starting over E B5 we made our peace there in the no mans land A5 where we come from Chorus E ive been searching for C#m the waves that carried us home A to the ocean we all came from E B5 where we wont be returned E ive been searching for C#m the waves that carried us home A to the ocean we all came from E B5 where we wont be dissolved A into one Verse E C#m like a simple animal running on broken legs that night A E his voice was splintering rising , falling to a fate B5 he’ll never get out E C#m from spokane all the way across montana out to the blood reserve A black levis jacket knocking them beers back on the E B5 bank of that river C#m A underneath september skies in south us border E he made his peace there B5 just after his boots A filled up with water Chorus E ive been searching for C#m the waves that carried us home A to the ocean we all came from E B5 where we wont be returned E ive been searching for C#m the waves that carried us home A to the ocean we all came from E B5 where we wont be dissolved E waves will wash away C#m the misguided vision A glory in a battlefield E B5 of a thousand corpses E ive been searching for C#m the waves that carried us home A to the ocean we all came from E B5 where we wont be dissolved A G#5 F#5 G#5 E out of the rain