{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":741577,"song":"Rio Grande","artist":"Dave Alvin","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11586607-rio-grande-chords-by-dave-alvin/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/741577?type=chord","rating":4.89862,"votes":11,"content":"RIO GRANDE\r\nDave Alvin - C\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I guess she put her blue dress on, and walked out late last night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Left one silk stocking, dangling from the bedside light[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I sobered up and called her name, just before the dawn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I saw her footprints in the sand, and knew that she had gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I pulled out of Albuquerque, prayin’ I wasn’t late[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I got a couple cups of coffee, at some joint off the interstate[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Passin’ through Las Cruces, I swear I saw her car[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  She always said she’d go someday, but never said how far[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Maybe she’s in Brownsville, she’s got some family there[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  She was always talkin’ ‘bout, the salty Gulf Coast air[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Where the river ends,     down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I saw an old grey heron, flyin’ south against the wind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Storm clouds over Juarez, rollin’ east to the Big Bend[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I drove down Highway Ninety, through a dusty desert wind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I didn’t know where it would lead me, or if I’d find her again[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I lit my last cigarette, as the sky began to clear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Black mountains up ahead, a red sundown in my mirror[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Lost all the border, ‘tween the future and the past[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  One fading slowly, and the other comin’ fast[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\nRepeat Chorus\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I bought a bottle in Del Rio, and I parked on the side of the road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I stayed up all night, starin’ at the lights of Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  And I walked down to border bridge, at the break of day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  And I threw that empty bottle off, and I watched it float away[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Down the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n\r\nRepeat Chorus…Where the river ends\r\n\r\n\r\nGuitargeek1155","plain_text":"RIO GRANDE\nDave Alvin - C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRepeat Chorus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRepeat Chorus…Where the river ends\n\n\nGuitargeek1155","chords":["C","Am","Dm","F","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}