Washing Of The Water (Peter Gabriel)
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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription
is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.

Intro:
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River, river, carry me on
CC Piano Chord 


Living river, carry me on
CC Piano Chord 


River, river, carry me on
F/CF/C Piano Chord 
           CC Piano Chord 


To the place where I come from
Bb/CBb/C Piano Chord 
                      CC Piano Chord 


Verse:
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So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride
CC Piano Chord 
  F/DF/D Piano Chord 
      C/EC/E Piano Chord 
            FF Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 


If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside
CC Piano Chord 
  G/BG/B Piano Chord 
      AmAm Piano Chord 
              FF Piano Chord 
               CC Piano Chord 


River, show me how to float, I feel like I'm sinking down
CC Piano Chord 
      F/DF/D Piano Chord 
     G/BG/B Piano Chord 
    CC Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 
                     CC Piano Chord 


Thought that I    could     get along
Am/CAm/C Piano Chord 
    CC Piano Chord 
    Em/BEm/B Piano Chord 
 G/BG/B Piano Chord 
    FF Piano Chord 
       CC Piano Chord 


Chorus:
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But here      in this water, my feet won't touch the ground
CC Piano Chord 
	 Am/FAm/F Piano Chord 
         D/GbD/Gb Piano Chord 
      Fmaj7/G    Dm/GDm/G Piano Chord 
      CC Piano Chord 


I need something to turn  myself around
CC Piano Chord 
 Am/FAm/F Piano Chord 
 D/GbD/Gb Piano Chord 
         Fmaj7/G Dm/GDm/G Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 


[verse]
Going away, away toward the sea
River deep, can you lift up and carry me
Oh roll on through the heartland
'Til the sun has left the sky
River, river, carry me high

[chorus]
'Til the washing of the water, make it all alright
Let your waters reach me, like she reached me tonight

Bridge:
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Letting go, it's so hard, the way it's hurting now
AmAm Piano Chord 
          C/GC/G Piano Chord 
                Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 


To get this love untied
D/GbD/Gb Piano Chord 
     E/AbE/Ab Piano Chord 
   AmAm Piano Chord 


So tough to stay with this thing, cos if I follow through
C/GC/G Piano Chord 
                            Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 


I face what I  denied
D/GbD/Gb Piano Chord 
      E/AbE/Ab Piano Chord 
 AmAm Piano Chord 


I'll get those hooks out of me
C/GC/G Piano Chord 


And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side
Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
                     D/GbD/Gb Piano Chord 
      E/AbE/Ab Piano Chord 
    AmAm Piano Chord 


Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide
C/GC/G Piano Chord 
             Fmaj7Fmaj7 Piano Chord 
        CC Piano Chord 


[chorus]
River, oh river, river running deep
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep

In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away

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// What makes mass society so difficult to bear  //
// is not the number of people involved...but    //
// the fact that the world between them has lost //
// its power to gather them together, to relate  //
// and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958  //
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