Chords
Only Our Rivers Run Free

Key: C

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
                C                                         G                      C  
          When apples still grow in November,
                          F                                      C                                 G  
          when blossoms still bloom on each tree,
                          F                                                                      C  
          when leaves are still green in December,
                             G                                                              Am  
          it's then that our land will be free.
                  F                                                    C                            F                                                              Em  
          I wander her hills and valleys and still through my sorrow I see,
                  F                                                                    C              G                                                    Am  
          a land that has never known freedom, only her rivers run free.
                  F                              G                              C  
          I drink to the death of her manhood,
                             F                              C                              G  
          those men who would rather have died
                                  F                                                                 C  
          than to live in the cold chains of bondage
                        G                                                                         Am  
          to bring back their rights were denied.
                F                                                                 C  
          Where are you now, when we need you,
                          F                                                                      Em  
          what burns where the flame used to be?
                                  F                                                                      C                            G                                                    Am  
          Are you gone like the snows of last winter, will only our rivers run free?
                          F                 G                                      C                         F                      C                                    G  
          How sweet is life but we're crying, how mellow the wine that were dry,
                          F                                                                 C                         G                                                         Am  
          how fragrant the rose but it's dying, how gentle the wind, but it sighs.
                          F                                                            C                              F                                                         Em  
          What good is youth when it's ageing, what joy is in eyes that can see?
                                                F                                                            C  
          when there's sorrow in sunshine and flowers,
                        G                                                 Am  
          and only our rivers run free.