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Tales From the Riverbank

The Jam
Chords & TabKeyDmadvanced
4.6(18)

Chords in this song10

Intro/Verse Riff

    
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----3-------2---|-----2-3-5-3-2---|
D|-5-------3-------|-5-------------3-|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Chorus Riff

 
e|-----1-3---5-----|-----------------|
B|---3-----------6-|-5-3-2-3---------|
G|-----------------|---------2-3-0-2-|
D|-0---------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Intro

| Gm Dm7 | x8

Verse 1

Bring you a tale from the pastel fields
Where we ran when we were young
This is a tale from the water meadows
Trying to spread some hope into your heart

Verse 2

It's mixed with happiness, it's mixed with tears
Both life and death are carried in this stream
That open space you could run for miles
Now you don't get so many to the pound

Chorus

True, it's a dream mixed with nostalgia   
But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to
That I always run to 
Won't you join me by the riverbank?
| Dm | Dm |

Verse 3

Paradise found down by the still waters
Joined in the race to the rainbow's end
No fears, no worries, just a golden country
Woke at sunrise, went home at sunset

Bridge

Now life is so critical, life is too cynical
We lose our innocence, we lose our very soul

Interlude

| Dm | Dm | x4

Chorus

True, it's a dream mixed with nostalgia   
But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to
That I always run to 
True, it's a dream mixed with nostalgia   
But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to
That I always run to 
Won't you join me by the riverbank?
Come on and join me by the riverbank

Outro

| Gm Dm7 |
(repeat to fade)

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