Tono: C
C
What I love most about rivers is
F
C9/G
You can't step in the same river twice
F/A
G/B
C
The water's always changing, always flowing
F7M
But people, I guess, can't live like that
Am
We all must pay a price
Dm7
Dm7/G
G
To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing
Em
F
What's around the riverbend
F/G
Em/G
F/G
Em/G
F/G
G
Waiting just around the riverbend
G/F
C/E
F
I look once more
C
Just around the riverbend
G/F
C/E
F
Beyond the shore
C
Where the gulls fly free
Am
Don't know what for
D9
What I dream the day might send
F/G
G
Just around the riverbend
A
D
For me
A
D
Coming for me
C
I feel it there beyond those trees
F
Or right behind these waterfalls
F/A
G/B
C
G/C
C
Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming
F7M
For a handsome sturdy husband
G/A
Am
Who builds handsome sturdy walls
Dm7
F
F/G
G
F/G
G
And never dreams that something might be coming?
Em
F
Just around the riverbend
F/G
Em/G
F/G
G
F/G
G
Just around the riverbend
G/F
C/E
F
I look once more
C
Just around the riverbend
G/F
C/E
F
Beyond the shore
C
Somewhere past the sea
Am
Don't know what for
D9
Why do all my dreams extend
F/G
Just around the riverbend?
Dm/G
Just around the riverbend
F9
Should I choose the smoothest course
C/E
F
Steady as the beating drum?
F/A
G/B
Should I marry Kocoum?
C
F
Is all my dreaming at an end?
F
G/A
Am
G/A
Am
Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver
Dm7
Just around the river
C
F
bend?