By This River

Brian Eno

RockMedium for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              C 
Here we are 
C 
Stuck by this river, 
Am 
You and I 
Am 
Underneath a sky that's ever falling  
F 
down, down, down 
Am 
Ever falling down. 
 
Through the day 
As if on an ocean 
Waiting here, 
Always failing to remember why we  
  came, came, came: 
I wonder why we came.  
 
You talk to me 
as if from a distance 
And I reply 
With impressions chosen from another  
  time, time, time, 
From another time.

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Chord set

C · Am · F

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.