{"id":14260,"date":"2022-10-04T18:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=14260"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:15:30","slug":"river-bill-staines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/river-bill-staines\/","title":{"rendered":"River – Bill Staines"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Verse 1]\u00a0 <\/span>[D] I was born in the path of the [G] winter<\/span> [D] wind<\/span>
\n[D] I was raised where the mountains are [A] old<\/span>
\nTheir [D] springtime waters came [G] dancing [D] down<\/span>
\nAnd I [D ] remember the [A] tales they [D] told<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 2]\u00a0 <\/span>The [D] whistling ways of my [G] younger [D] days<\/span>
\n[D] Too quickly have faded on [A] by<\/span>
\n[D] But all of their memories [G] linger [D] on<\/span>
\nLike the [D] light in a [A] fading [D] sky<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span>
\n[D] River, [G] take me [A] along in your [D] sunshine,<\/span>
\n[G] sing me a [A] song Ever [G] moving and [D] winding and free<\/span>
\nYou [G] rolling old [D] river, you [G] changing old <\/span>[D] river<\/span><\/span>
\nLet’s [G] you and me, river, (run\/walk)\u00a0 [A] down to the<\/span>\u00a0sea [D]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse]<\/span>
\nI’ve [D] been to the city and [G] back [D] again<\/span>
\nI’ve [D] been moved by some things that I’ve <\/span>[A] learned<\/span>
\n[D] Met a lot of good people and I’ve [G] called <\/span>them [D] friends<\/span>
\nFelt the [D] change when the [A] seasons [D] turned<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse]<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve heard [D] all the songs that the <\/span>[G] children [D] sing<\/span>
\nAnd [D] listened to love’s [A] melodies<\/span>
\n[D] I’ve felt my own music [G] within [D] me rise<\/span>
\nLike the [D] wind in the [A] autumn [D] trees<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/p>\n

[Instrumental]<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse]<\/span>
\n[D] Someday when the flowers are [G] blooming [D] still<\/span>
\n[D] Someday when the grass is still [A] green<\/span>
\n[D] My rolling waters will [G] round the [D] bend<\/span>
\nAnd [D] flow into the [A] open [D] sea<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse]<\/span><\/p>\n

So, [D] here’s to the rainbow that’s <\/span>[G] followed me [D] here<\/span>
\nAnd [D] here’s to the friends that I [A] know<\/span>
\nAnd [D] here’s to the song that’s [G] within me [D] now<\/span>
\nI will [D] sing it [A] wherever I [D] go<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span>
\n[D] River,[G] take me [A] along in your [D] sunshine,<\/span>
\n[G] sing me a [A] song Ever [G] moving and [D] winding and free<\/span>
\nYou [G] rolling old [D] river, you [G] changing old <\/span>[D] river<\/span><\/span>
\nLet’s [G] you and me, river, (run\/walk)\u00a0 [A] down to the<\/span>\u00a0sea [D]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Verse 1]\u00a0 [D] I was born in the path of the [G] winter [D] wind [D] I was raised where the mountains are [A] old Their [D] springtime waters came [G] dancing [D] down And I [D ] remember the [A] tales they [D] told [Verse 2]\u00a0 The [D] whistling … CLICK TO VIEW SONGRiver – Bill Staines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}