Riverside Chords
by Will Knox
Riverside by Will Knox is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Gm. It uses the chords Gm, F, Bb, Cm and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
Gm F Bb Cm
Gm F Cm
verse 1
Gm F Bb
I'm going home, to see my friend
Cm Bb F
In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend
Gm F Bb
Nothing's bright but everything is pale
Cm Bb F
And a bruised breeze fills a river man sails
Gm F Bb Cm
Gm F Cm
verse 2
Gm F Bb
Graveyards gums have grown new teeth
Cm Bb F
Pretty new pearls adorned by pretty new reeds
Gm F Bb
I twist my tongue and you bend my ear
Cm Bb F
Light another cigarette and tell me you've had a bad year
Eb Gm
Slipping through ivory stones
Bb F
Familiar faces I don't know
Eb Gm
Channel wine, bitter pride
Bb F
Designed to satisfy
Gm F Bb Cm
I drowned these thoughts by the riverside
Gm F Cm
verse 3
Gm F Bb
The river ink composes poems
Cm Bb F
Her bridges break and the boatmen punctuate
Gm F Bb
She teaches me through tides and wakes
Cm Bb F
Her words are ripples and waves of frosted lakes
Eb Gm
Slipping through ivory stones
Bb F
Familiar faces I don't know
Eb Gm
Channel wine, bitter pride
Bb F
Designed to satisfy
Gm F Bb Cm
I drowned these thoughts by the riverside
Gm F Cm
Gm F Bb
I'm going home, to see my friend
Cm Bb F
In a chapel town on the bank of a river-bend
Gm F Bb
I twist my tongue and you bend my ear
Cm Bb F
Light another cigarette and tell me you've had a bad year