Rocky Votolato - 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