Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

I don't know why I love you like I do

After all the changes you been putting me through

You took my money and my cigarettes

Now I ain't seen hide nor hair of you yet

Chorus

I wanna know, won't you tell me, I'd love to say...

Take me to the river, wash me down

Take me to the water, put my feet on the ground

turnaround

Verse 2

I don't know why she treated me so bad

After all the things that we could have had

Love is emotion that I can't forget

My sweet sixteen I will never regret (repeat chorus)

Bridge

Hold me, love me

Please me, baby you can squeeze me

Til I drown, til I drown, til I drown, I'm gonna take you to the river

Verse3

I don't know why I love you like I do

After all the changes you been putting me through

Your sixteen candles are burnin' on my wall

Telling me how you made a fool of them all (repeat chorus)

Verse

chords: E7 0 2 0 1 3 0 or...

E7 0 7 6 7 5 0(I like this version better)

Chorus chords

C x 3 5 5 x x or...

C x 3 5 5 0 0(jangly)

A x 0 2 2 2 0(if you can get to it)

A 5 7 7 x x x(if you can't)

A7 x 0 7 6 8 x(funky chord, mute the A string)

rest of the chorus chords like the verse chords, except...

E7+5 0 7 6 7 8 0(mute both E strings or let 'em ring)

Bridge chords

B x 2 4 4 x x or...

B x 2 4 4 0 0 (jangly)

B7 x x 4 2 4 x or...

B7 x x 9 8 10 x (funky)