The River - Bruce Springsteen Guitar Lesson

We will start with a great Bruce Springsteen song, The River.



This are the chords:

Em G D C Am

The rhythm:

D: Down
U: Up

D DU U DU

The song has 3 parts:

In the link: http://www.lovebolts.co.uk/transcription.php?278~The+River
you have the song and the chords, don´t take into acount de (D/F#) chord.


Intro:

Em G D C Am G C C

2nd part:

Em G D C
Em G C G
C C *|G D| Em
Am Am G C

* When she was just seventeen

The |G D| starts in "she" and it is played G(D DU),D(D DU) and then Em in "teen" the same as in all the song.

3rd part:

Em C
D G
Em C D C

A good cover I found in youtube: