C                            G                  D 
Spit into the center of your hometown, there's leaves in the street, 
                      Dsus4     D     C                     G        D    Dsus4   D
and there are friends around you now. All the days of your life in a line. 
C               G            D   Dsus4   D
or the way they seemed by 89...
C                      G               D                 Dsus4  D
But it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.

[Chorus]
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

[Verse]
        C                    G                     
We lie awake at night in a tent and I say, 
                   D                                           Dsus4 D   C
Tell me about your uncle and his friend because they seem like very bad men. 
        G                        D    Dsus4
Well we want to keep away from them. 
D           C                            G            D   Dsus4 D
Bend in the road back there, we saw the place they go. 

C                          G                     D
Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know 
                              Dsus4 D             C
or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio. 
                  G                         D              Dsus4
Play it again and again it cuts off at the ending though. 

 D          C                          G
Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend. 
                    D            
Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again? 
        Dsus4  D      C                          G
All the way down the line to where the telephone ends 
                                  D    Dsus4  D
come on and shout it on down the wire.

C                      G                D                 Dsus4  D
And it's not all right.  It's not even close to all right.

[Chorus]
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

[Verse]
           C                  G
And as the rescue party, the volunteer team,
              D                                 
they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thing 
        Dsus4 D                     C
they've seen they're standing all around that tree, 
           G                         D         Dsus4  D
and I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying.

[Interlude] 
C  G  D Dsus4 D x2

[Verse]
{Sparse Strumming}
C                             G
Shivering from the late fall cold, 
               D
I felt like a solid ghost. 
                              C
I ran and then I couldn't slow. 
           G                          D
My father found me though, my father took me home. 
Dsus4  D      C                           G
He said, oh, son, I saw you get knocked down, 
          D
and I ran out I bet your head was spinning. 
            C
With that bright pain you stunned,               {resume strumming}
        G                              D               Dsus4
when you've only just begun to be only just beginning. 

[Verse]
 D            C                    G
Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears, 
               D                                Dsus4  D
and all that difficult shit in all those tender years. 
          C                               G
There was something in the air; something gathered in the air. 
          D                     
Something singing in the wind.

Dsus4 D      C                         G
I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror. 
                   D
And you'll be all right because I'll be right here. 
Dsus4 D             C
Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere. 
   G                              D        Dsus4  D
I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere.

C                   G                         D            
Though it's not all right. It is still far from all right. 
D                     C
We'll make it into a choice somehow. 
        G                        D              Dsus4  D
I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow.

[Chorus]
       C                          G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
       C                          G
We can never go back; we can only remember
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river

[Interlude] 
C  G  D Dsus4 D x2

[Verse]
            C                          G
Maybe they told you 'bout the summer sky, 
                          D
maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky 
   C                          G
or all your friends, all your best, best friends
          D
are gonna gather around your bed at night. 
     C                   G                            D                    Dsus4 D   C
Well that'll make it all right because it is still so far from all right. 

G                 D   Dsus4 D
Oh, kid, I know.

[Chorus]
       C                           G
Down a hall in your house, down a road in December
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
          C                              G                     D
Up the stairs four flights, son; can you feel my heart shiver?
              D                                            Dsus4  D
Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river
               C                            G               D
Waking in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer.
                                                           C
I said, are we going down, are we going down are we going down the deep river? 
    G               D
Oh down the deep river? 
                                C                G                D
Down, down, down down down the deep river, down down the deep river
                                  C                         G
Why don't you, why don't you, oh, say you still see it son, say you remember? 
D                         C                                     G
O-------h, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down
D
Are we going down, hey, hey, hey
               C                                     G
Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down
               D                                              C
Are we going down the deep river? Because I know it's scary, baby.

[Outro]
C  G  D Dsus4 D
C  G  D Dsus4 D
C  G  D Dsus4 D
C  G  D