Artist: Anathallo Song: The River Album: Canopy Glow Standard Tuning: [capo III] Chords used: EADGBe : 000232 :000432 : 320003 Intro/verse tab w/chords: (some variation within verses) e|---2---2---2---2-----2---2----3---3---3---3-----3---3-| B|---3-----3-----3-3-----3------0-----0-----0-0-----0---| G|---4-----------4--------------0-----------0-----------| D|-0-----------0----------------0-----------0-----------| A|------------------------------------------------------| E|----------------------------3-----------3-------------| Intro: play intro tab x3 (or just play chords) Verse 1 chords: High water carried her down stream She watched the water's living things She thought, it's not a mound with six planks of wood The cardinal points to hold you up * Or a mountain where a shed self could Verse 2 chords: (repeat x2) Feed the roots and honor the tongues of the animals Drift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pulls Interlude: play intro tab x3 (or just play chords) Verse 3: (use verse 1 chords) Rolled like a felled tree with arms as useless as such Death's panic came, a calmness stayed, you couldn't do much Just watch the water chip away at the bank eroding Cut and crumbling through the spate Verse 4 chords: It took a father, it covered his daughter Took her down, down, down With the glass bottles, books, a tire Collected hair tufts in the weeds Snagged and wrapped in the peats dammed and trapped Chorus Chords: (repeat x3) You said, is this the ceremony? I don't know, well I don't mind The way we all fall in and roll down Pushed through the veins and trafficked byes And when your ears sit underhead is half submerged down below Pooling all accounts of peace while passed beneath the canopy glow canopy glow, canopy glow, canopy glow