The Ballad Of Easy Rider Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays469

The Ballad Of Easy Rider by The Byrds is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, F#m, G, G/F#, Em, A, Dsus4 and Asus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			 
 
 D              F#m 
The river flows, it flows to the sea 
 G              G G/F# Em               A 
Wherever that river goes that's where I want to be 
  D Dsus4    D                           Dsus4 
Flow river flow, let your waters wash down 
               D           Em  Asus4 A       D  Dsus4 D 
Take me from this road to some       other town 
 
All he wanted was to be free 
And that's the way it turned out to be 
Flow river flow, let your waters wash down 
Take me from this road to some other town 
 
BRIDGE: 
 D                               Dsus4 
Flow river flow, past the shady trees 
          D                Dsus4 
Go river go, go to the sea 
 Em Asus4 A      D 
Flow      to the sea 
 
The river flows, it flows to the sea 
Wherever it goes that's where I want to be 
Flow river flow, let your waters wash down 
Take me from this road to some other town 
 
 
(from The Ballad of Easy Rider, 1969) 
(sent by Harlan at [email protected]) 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante