The River Come On Down by Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

Intro

C Am   F C    Gb Am    F C 


Verse 1

C             Am
Are you tired of shame and secrets
F           C
wishing you could let them go?
Gb           Am
Do you feel like an orphan searching 
F     C
for a home?
C              Am
There’s a love that fills what’s empty
F               C
There’s a place you can be changed
Gb            Am
There’s a God who knows you
     F
He’s calling out your name
  

Chorus

         C       Am
 Come on down to the river
        F
Come be washed in 
C
the Blood And your 
Gb          Am
sin will be forgiven by the 
F            C
power of His love
        C
Come be changed by 
Am                   F          C
the mercy that makes all things new
          Gb
There the lost get 
Am            F                      C
found come on down, down down To the river!  


Instrumental

C Am    F C    Gb Am    F C 


Verse 2

C             Am
It flows like the Mississippi 
F              C
from the giver of endless grace
Gb       Am
Everyone is welcome here to 
F          C
drive into the waves
C                 Am
So leave the questions far behind you 
F               C
leave your past back on the shore
Gb                Am       F
And run with wild abandon, wait no more!


REPEAT Chorus


Bridge
 
       Dm
 Every burden, every scar let the 
Am           Gb
waters wash away
          Dm
No matter who you were before
      F
You belong to Christ today
 
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[Refrain]

                C
 As I went down to the river to pray studying 
Gb                  C
about that good ol’ way
                                            Gb
And who shall wear the robe and crown; good Lord 
F           C
show me the way
Gb       C
O sister let’s go down, let’s go 
F             C
down, come on down
Gb        C
O sister let’s go down, 
C           F        C
down to the river to pray


Chorus 2
  
      D       Bm
Come on down to the river come be 
G         D
washed in the Blood And your 
A            Bm
sins will be forgiven by the 
G            D            D
power of His love Come be changed by 
Bm                   G          D
the mercy that makes all things new 
          A        Bm            G                       D
There the lost get found come on down, down, down To the river! 


Outro

D Bm  G D