I'm not totally satisfied with this one, so any help or suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.

(In 3/4 time)

GG Piano Chord 
                    AmAm Piano Chord 

I buried him down by the river
CC Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
  EmEm Piano Chord 
 AmAm Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 

Cause that's where he liked to be
GG Piano Chord 
                    AmAm Piano Chord 

And every night when the moon is high
CC Piano Chord 
           CC Piano Chord 
  EmEm Piano Chord 
  AmAm Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 

I go there and weep openly

DD Piano Chord 
             AmAm Piano Chord 

He and I were married
CC Piano Chord 
                EmEm Piano Chord 
      GG Piano Chord 

By this river 'neath this willow tree
DD Piano Chord 
                 AmAm Piano Chord 

And with God and friends witnessing it
CC Piano Chord 
         AmAm Piano Chord 
        GG Piano Chord 

He pledged his life to me

To me he was Earth
And I rooted in his soil
I to he was Sky vast and free
Of the burdens from which he toiled

Then one night a terrible fight
Words spoken better left unsaid
With his wedding vows ringing in my ears
He gave his life to me

They say to love is to bury
Those demons from which we all hide
But tonight by this river 'neath this willow tree
Becoming one of Earth and Sky

Da da da, da da da, da da da, etc...

Notes:
On that C/Em/Am/G thing that's all in one measure ("where he
liked to be"), I think it might just be a pair of C chords,
and I'm just hearing a walkdown from C down to G in the bass,
in other words:

CC Piano Chord 
   Em?   Am?   GG Piano Chord 

AA Piano Chord 
 ---3----2----0---------
EE Piano Chord 
 -------------------3---

On some of the Am's, I like to pick up my finger off of the
D string and put it right back down, again, something that I
don't think Michael's actually playing, but something that I
think sounds sort of cool in there.  I picked up this trick
from REM's "Swan Swan H." (in 3/4 time -- maybe that's why I
think it sounds good).

Andrew Fung