Tom: C
D C
The thirty-first day of December
G D
Three thousand dressed in blue and gray
D C
All sons of the Heavenly Father
G D
Lay in a watery grave
C G
And the river runs red
D C G D
The river runs red
[Verse]
D C
One shot woke the Tennessee mornin'
G D
Soon fire and smoke filled the sky
D C
Then rain came down with no warning
G D
As sorrow fell down from all sides
[Chorus]
D
The river runs red
Am/C
The river runs red
G
No winners or losers
D
When you count the dead
D
We watch it roll by,
Am/C
We all bow our heads,
G
The guns have gone silent
D C G
But the river runs red
D C G D
[Verse]
D C
Now Rogers was from Alabama
G D
And Thomas an old New York town
D C
But soon they would die like blood brothers
G D
In the stream where their souls would flow down
[Chorus]
D
The river runs red
Am/C
The river runs red
G
No winners or losers
D
When you count the dead
D
We watch it roll by,
Am/C
We all bow our heads,
G
The guns have gone silent
C G D
But the river runs red
[Bridge]
F G
Some say you could see round for miles
D
And it flowed that way so many years
F G
Now the water looks clean and untainted
G
But Stones River will never run clear
D
The river runs red
Am/C
The river runs red
G
No winners or losers
D
When you count the dead
D
We watch it roll by,
Am/C
We all bow our heads,
G
The guns have gone silent
D C G
But the river runs red
