RIO GRANDE Dave Alvin - C

^D I guess she put her blue dress on, and ^Emwalked out late last night ^D Left one silk stocking, dangling ^Emfrom the bedside light ^Am I sobered up and called her name,^C just before the dawn ^Am I saw her footprints in the sand, and ^Cknew that she had gone Down the Rio ^DGrande^Am ^C

I pulled out of Albuquerque, prayin’ I wasn’t late I got a couple cups of coffee, at some joint off the interstate Passin’ through Las Cruces, I swear I saw her car She always said she’d go someday, but never said how far Down the Rio Grande Chorus

^Am Maybe she’s i^Dn Brownsville, she?^D??s got some fam^Emily there ^Am She was always ^Dtalkin’ ‘bout, ^Dthe salty Gulf Co^Emast air Where the river ends,^Am ^Cdown the Rio ^DGrande ^Am ^C

I saw an old grey heron, flyin’ south against the wind Storm clouds over Juarez, rollin’ east to the Big Bend I drove down Highway Ninety, through a dusty desert wind I didn’t know where it would lead me, or if I’d find her again Down the Rio Grande I lit my last cigarette, as the sky began to clear Black mountains up ahead, a red sundown in my mirror Lost all the border, ‘tween the future and the past One fading slowly, and the other comin’ fast Down the Rio Grande Repeat Chorus I bought a bottle in Del Rio, and I parked on the side of the road I stayed up all night, starin’ at the lights of Mexico And I walked down to border bridge, at the break of day And I threw that empty bottle off, and I watched it float away Down the Rio Grande Repeat Chorus…Where the river ends Guitargeek1155

Dave Alvin - Rio grande