Artist: Rocky Votolato Album: True Devotion Song: Red River Transcribed by: Chris Sheehy Tuning: Down a half step Intro A5 Ab5 F#5 Ab5 E Verse E C#m This is what life is like on the ground A I had a brother who was stationed up in northern hill county, E B5 no he never really came home E C#m We drove out east to red river to see the high water flow A That river was running just searching for an ocean E B5 The freedom he'd never known C#m That feeling you get when the wind is blowing like A your whole life is starting over E B5 We made our peace there in the no mans land A5 where we come from Chorus E Ive been searching for C#m The waves that carried us home A To the ocean we all came from E B5 Where we wont be returned E Ive been searching for C#m The waves that carried us home A To the ocean we all came from E B5 Where we wont be dissolved A into one Verse E C#m Like a simple animal running on broken legs that night A E His voice was splintering rising, falling to a fate B5 he'll never get out E C#m From spokane all the way across montana out to the blood reserve A Black levis jacket knocking them beers back on the E B5 bank of that river C#m A Underneath September skies in south US border E he made his peace there B5 just after his boots A filled up with water Chorus E Ive been searching for C#m The waves that carried us home A To the ocean we all came from E B5 Where we wont be returned E Ive been searching for C#m The waves that carried us home A To the ocean we all came from E B5 Where we wont be dissolved E Waves will wash away C#m the misguided vision A Glory in a battlefield E B5 of a thousand corpses E Ive been searching for C#m The waves that carried us home A To the ocean we all came from E B5 Where we wont be dissolved A Ab5 F#5 Ab5 E Out of the rain