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Hold Back The River
James Bay
Key : F
Capo
[Intro]
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Dm | C | F | Bb | F 
Bb | F | C 

[Verse 1]
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Dm   C       F         Bb     F
Tried to keep you close  to me
        Bb      F
But life  got in between
C Dm   C         F      Bb       F
  Tried to square not being there
         Bb      F
But think  that I should have been

[Chorus (1)]
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C    Bb
 Hold  back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
        F
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
Hold back the river, hold back

[Pre-Verse]
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Dm | C | F 

[Verse 2]
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Dm  C    F      Bb        F
Once upon a different life
       Bb         F
We rode  our bikes into the sky
C    Dm C       F       Bb        F
 But now we call against  the tide
         Bb       F               C
Those distant days are flashing by

[Chorus (2)]
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    Bb
Hold  back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
        F
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                         C
Hold back the river, hold back
    Bb
Hold  back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
        F
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
                         C    Dm C F Bb F Bb
Hold back the river, hold back
F | C 

[Interlude]
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F                                     Bb
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Gm
Let us hold each other
F                                     Bb
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Gm
Let us hold each other

[Chorus (3)]
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    Bb
Hold  back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
        F
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                         C
Hold back the river, hold back
    Bb
Hold  back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
        F
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
                         C
Hold back the river, hold

[Outro]
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F                                     Bb
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Gm         C
Let us hold each other
F                                     Bb
Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander
Gm
Let us hold each other
Dm | C | F | Bb | F 
Bb | F | C 
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