Shining River

Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: BCapotraste: 4th traste As recorded by Eric Bogle with John Munro & Brent Miller (From the 1984 Album WHEN THE WIND BLOWS) Note: This is for the original version of the song from 1984, not for the new version from 2019. See the link to the YouTube video above. To play along with the 2019 version transpose the below chords +5 steps and remove the capo. (YouTube video: https://youtu.be/LT8FpGywjzQ) Capo 4th fret [Intro] G Em G Em [Verse 1] G Bm Em G C D Outside my door when I was young there flowed a shining river G Bm Em Am C D Gleaming in the summer sun it used to shine like silver G Bm Em Am D And the banks were lined with willow trees and tall green waving rushes G Bm Em Am D And song birds sang in the summer breeze, and nested in the bushes [Chorus] D G Am Don't you think it's time we got together D G To save our shining river? Am It will soon be gone forever D G Em Don't you think it's time, time, time? G D Em Time, time, time [Verse 2] G Bm Em C D The willow trees have long since gone the birds are getting fewer G Bm Em G Am D And where my river used to run there's just an open sewer G Bm Em Am D And the banks are lined with factories, grey towers of brick and mortar G Bm Em Am D There's smog and dust in the summer breeze and poison in the water [Chorus] D G Am Don't you think it's time we got together D G To save our shining river? Am It will soon be gone forever D G Em Don't you think it's time, time, time? G D Em Time, time, time [Verse 3] G Bm Em C D And where the silver gum did stand, where bloomed the yellow wattle G Bm Em Am D Now there's only old tin cans and piles of broken bottles G Bm Em Am D And the banks are lined with mud and silt, the river's thick with slime G Bm Em Am D And you ask me who must bear the guilt when the fault is yours and mine [Out-Chorus] D G Am Don't you think it's time we got together D G To save our shining river? Am It will soon be gone forever D G Em Don't you think it's time, time, time? G D Em Time, time, time G Time