Lyr Req: Watching the River Run (Loggins & Messina

Subject: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: Sandy Creek
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 08:43 AM

Help me please. Need lyrics for song which contains the line "Run River Run."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 09:13 AM

It's called "Watchin' The River Run by Loggins and Messina.

Subject: ADDPOP: Watching the River Run (Loggins/Messina)
From: GUEST,harpgrrrl
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 09:15 AM

Watching The River Run


If you've been thinking
You're all that you've got
Then don't feel alone anymore
'Cause when we're together
Then you've got a lot
For I am the river
And you are the shore

And it goes on and on
Watching the river run
Further and further
From things that we've done
Leaving them one by one
And we have just begun
Watching the river run
Listening and learning
And yearning
Run, river, run

Winding and turning
And dancing along
We passed by the old willow tree
Where friends embrace
As we sing them our song
Rejoicing together
As we greet the sea

And it goes on and on
Watching the river run
Further and further
From things that we've done
Leaving them one by one
And we have just begun
Watching the river run
Listening and learning
And yearning
Run, river, run

And it goes on and on
Watching the river run
Further and Further
From things that we've done
Leaving them one by one
And we have just begun
Watching the river run
Listening and learning
And yearning
Run, river, run

Subject: Tune Req: "Run, River, Run"
From: Genie
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 05:46 PM

Can anyone post an ABC or MIDI of the tune? I recall parts of it but not the whole thing.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: Genie
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 03:09 PM

Harpgirl, thanks for clarifying the title.

Still would like to know the tune.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 09:35 PM

I've got chords for it -- will that help?

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 09:38 PM

Oh, and in verse 2 it should read where lovers caress... not "friends".

Loggins and Messina had a bunch of good songs, didn't they? Some of them very folky.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: harpgirl
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 11:33 PM

yes michaelr, I learned it with those words as well. I copied it off a website and didn't reread it. Sorry.

I learned it from the playing of Ron Wall, master autoharpist, on the autoharp but I assume you play guitar so here are the chords I would use:

A             A7               D               B7
If you've been thinking you're all that you've got,

      E                A
then don't feel alone anymore,

A               A7          D            D
Cuz when we're together then you've got alot

E                               A
I am the river and you are the shore

A            D      E
And it goes on and on

A          E    A
Watchin the river run

D                      E                      A
Listenin and learnin and yearnin to run river run




that should get it to sound like the L& M song but I'm sure there are some other chords to throw in there. I'm just a basic player on the guitar!    harpgrrrl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: harpgirl
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 11:40 PM

hmmm... well those chords seem to have to be moved a word over like this: A over anymore   A7 over together D over you've got alot
A over shore

then move the D and E, the E and A and the E and A over to the next word where you hear the chord changes. Sorry, I can't get the letters to line up properly. Mayeb a clone can fix it!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: denise:^)
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 03:56 PM

After seeing this thread, I remembered the song--which I had always liked--and had to go buy a copy...

Denise:^)

Subject: Lyr/Chd. Req: Watching The River Run
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 12:46 PM

How's this, springhopper?
 

 A                     A7                  D                   B7
 If you've been thinking you're all that you've got,

           E                          A
 then don't feel alone anymore,

             A                   A7              D              D
 'Cause when we're together then you've got a lot.

 E                                            A
 I am the river and you are the shore.

 A                D         E
 And it goes on and on,

 A                   E    A
 Watchin the river run,

   D                                     E                             A
 Listenin' and learnin' and yearnin' to run, river, run.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 12:48 PM

Here are the lyrics in a previous thread:
Lyr/Chords Req: Run, River, Run

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Run River Run
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 01:00 PM

gee whiz Genie, how come I can't the chords over the words properly? You must be a genie....

Subject: Chds Add: Watching The River Run (Run, River, Run)
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 01:03 PM

Chords (reformatted) in C, from another thread.

Genie
 

C                     C7                  F                   
If you've been thinking you're all that you've got,

           G                          C
Then don't feel alone any more,

                                C7               F
'Cause when we're together then we've got a lot,

       G                           G7              C
 For I am the river and you are the shore.

 C7              F          G
 And it goes on and on,

 C                 X22010   Am-->3x2210
Watching The  River    Run
F                                      G
Further and further from things that we've done
 C              X22010   Am-->3X2210
Leaving us   one by   one
                    F        G
And we have just begun
  E                          F-->XX2011-->Dm
Watching The River Run
  F                                    G
Listening and learning and yearning,
                  C
Run, river, run.