Gone Down The River GUITAR TUTORIAL - Fletcher C Johnson

(Capo on 3rd Fret) Am picking pattern ——————————————————— 0——————————————————— ———————————————————— ——0/2——2——2——2——0—————0 ————1——1——1——1——1——1———1 ————0——0——0——0——0——0———0 G picking pattern 3———————————————————— ———————————————————— ——0/2——2——2——2——0—————0— ————0——0——0——0——0——0———0 ————0——0——0——0——0——0———0 —————————————————————— LICK ———————————————— ———————————————— ——————————2—————— —2/4——2——0————————— ———0——0——0———0———— ———0——0——0———0———— VERSE 1 Am G And I am almost twenty-five Am It’s the strange things I’ve seen G that keep my alive Am I’ve seen a beautiful woman with a tattooed face cry herself to sleep for things she G couldn’t erase Ah oh Am Seen a love note written in the hard concrete by a love sick boy who resembled me G oh where’s my baby she is something sweet Am Seen nine men living up in a tree G I sent them food while the cops chased me Am Seen a teenage boy with an old age beard move deep into the woods to escape a fear G what it was was never too clear Am his parents put it there Am G Am G Em VERSE 2 Am G And I’ve loved all of my days Am G I’ve spent them in the most peculiar place Am Spent a week atop a mountain slept through stormy nights Spent a week below a bridge slept through G stormy nights Oh oh Am Lived with ten boys circling in total peace Lived with one girl we only spoke through our teeth G Where’s my baby she is something sweet Am I caught six rides going from the east to the west G only to find I need the east to rest at night Am Lived in a basement of a house full to the top of relics one woman had never forgot G she let me touch them is they returned to their spot Am Oh she was good to me G She’s good to me Am She’s good to me G She’s good to me Am She’s good to me Em She’s good to me C She’s good to me Am She’s something sweet VERSE 3 Am G And I know myself Am I found me in a book about a book G about a boy on a quest Am He went down to the water and he saw himself He bent down to the river and he G kissed himself Ah oh Am He went down to the water and he saw himself He bent down to the river and he kissed himself G where’s my baby she is something sweet Am I went down to the water and I saw myself I bent down to the river and I kissed myself G I said where’s my baby she is something sweet Em Am She’s sweet to me Podcast:    • Mission Hill - Listening To Fletcher C Joh...   Instagram:   / fletchercjohnson   Facebook:   / fletchercjohnsonband   Bandcamp: https://fletchercjohnson.bandcamp.com/