Okkervil River

Down Down The Deep River

Okkervil River


Tom: G

C                            G                  D 
Spit into the center of your hometown, there's leaves in the street, 
                      Dsus4     D     C                     G        D    Dsus4   D
and there are friends around you now. All the days of your life in a line. 
C               G            D   Dsus4   D
or the way they seemed by 89...
C                      G               D                 Dsus4  D
But it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.

[Chorus]
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

[Verse]
        C                    G                     
We lie awake at night in a tent and I say, 
                   D                                           Dsus4 D   C
Tell me about your uncle and his friend because they seem like very bad men. 
        G                        D    Dsus4
Well we want to keep away from them. 
D           C                            G            D   Dsus4 D
Bend in the road back there, we saw the place they go. 

C                          G                     D
Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know 
                              Dsus4 D             C
or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio. 
                  G                         D              Dsus4
Play it again and again it cuts off at the ending though. 

 D          C                          G
Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend. 
                    D            
Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again? 
        Dsus4  D      C                          G
All the way down the line to where the telephone ends 
                                  D    Dsus4  D
come on and shout it on down the wire.

C                      G                D                 Dsus4  D
And it's not all right.  It's not even close to all right.

[Chorus]
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

[Verse]
           C                  G
And as the rescue party, the volunteer team,
              D                                 
they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thing 
        Dsus4 D                     C
they've seen they're standing all around that tree, 
           G                         D         Dsus4  D
and I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying.

[Interlude] 
C  G  D Dsus4 D x2

[Verse]