Rio Grande Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C I guess she put her blue dress on, and Amwalked out late last night

C Left one silk stocking, dangling Amfrom the bedside light

Dm I sobered up and called her name,F just before the dawn

Dm I saw her footprints in the sand, and Fknew that she had gone

Down the Rio CGrandeDm F

I pulled out of Albuquerque, prayin’ I wasn’t late

I got a couple cups of coffee, at some joint off the interstate

Passin’ through Las Cruces, I swear I saw her car

She always said she’d go someday, but never said how far

Down the Rio Grande

Chorus

Dm Maybe she’s in GBrownsville, she’s Cgot some family Amthere

Dm She was always Gtalkin’ ‘bout, the Csalty Gulf Coast Amair

Where the river ends,Dm Fdown the Rio CGrande Dm F

I saw an old grey heron, flyin’ south against the wind

Storm clouds over Juarez, rollin’ east to the Big Bend

I drove down Highway Ninety, through a dusty desert wind

I didn’t know where it would lead me, or if I’d find her again

Down the Rio Grande

I lit my last cigarette, as the sky began to clear

Black mountains up ahead, a red sundown in my mirror

Lost all the border, ‘tween the future and the past

One fading slowly, and the other comin’ fast

Down the Rio Grande

Repeat Chorus

I bought a bottle in Del Rio, and I parked on the side of the road

I stayed up all night, starin’ at the lights of Mexico

And I walked down to border bridge, at the break of day

And I threw that empty bottle off, and I watched it float away

Down the Rio Grande

Repeat Chorus

Where the river ends

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