Standard (EADGBE)

Down by the Riverside, well there's a place for me

 Where I won't sit and think about where I'd rather be

and I don't need nothing

but the look on my face

It's all bullshit

It's just the time it takes between

 where it comes and where it

You can go swimming, no sign of rainstorms or

thunder I won't be joining you

because today between the time it's taking

me to wonder I just might get sucked under

 single note riff: ^

Down by the ocean, it's all behind me it's just an open sea,

and I can really see for miles

I wish I knew just what I was looking for

A pool of endless rhymes, I ain't talking 'bout the water

 We're talking time, where it comes and where it yeah

You can go swimming, there's been no warning of hurricane

 or tidal wave, ain't no dangerous fish out there

 I won't be joining you still

 It's just a feeling in me I get washed out to the sea

 Yeah the sea

fooling around with , ,

D D Am Am(stop) Am7 and Amsus2 sounds nice if you're

playing alone (i.e. without band)

I wish I could go 'cause you know

 that the water doesn't usually frighten me so

 It's not the depth of the sea that infatuates me

 It's what remains to be seen, like the time in between

 where it comes and where it goes

 where it goes yeah

Down in a creekbed in my old neighbourhood

there is a trickle that's dirty and warm

and I have spend many a childhood hour there

It's where I used to play, seems like yesterday

But I was younger then, just make believing

making wishes and tossing pennies in

and now I've grown, haven't changed my tone,

 just getting stoned and ain't pretending that I know

You can go swimming though it's only a trickle there

 and the floodgates haven't worked for years

 I won't be joining you, no, I wish I could go

but I

 and I

You can go swimming