Standard (EADGBE)

 My love is like a river,

 She just keeps on rolling along

 No man ever can keep that girl from moving on

 Easy as she comes by, easy as she's gone

Get down, real down, crying how I love that girl,

She's as free as heaven on a breeze

Lay my burden down, down by the river's edge,

There I learned to let my lover be

Guitar solo

[organ solo + vocal background]

And don't you know I'd hold you (hold you, oh yeah)

If I could find a way, (oh yeah, oh yeah)

If I could only catch you, (oooh, catch you, oh yeah)

If you would only stay. (stay, stay)

And don't you know I want you, (want you, want you)

Baby, baby, baby, baby, stay (stay, yeah)

If I could only love you, (love me)

But girl you keep on running away, running away, running away

Oooh no (yeah)

 My love is like a river