Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Litgo@aol.com
Subject: CRD: Sea_Refuses_No_River by: Pete_Townshend

The Sea Refuses No River
By Pete Townshend
>From all the best cowboys have chinese eyes, 1982

Originally transcribed by Andy Dennis
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Litgo@aol.com
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C(no 3)    x35xxx
C6         x322xx or x3221x
C/G.       3x2013
Amaj7      5x665x
D(no 3)    x57xxx
F/A        103211 (use thumb)
Gm         355333 (use thumb)
Gmaj7      3x5432 (use thumb) or 3x443x or 3x0032 (thumb) or x10 9 777


[intro]

C(no 3)  /   /    /
C(no 3)  /   /    /    C6   /   /   /   /
Bb  F

[VERSE I]

Gm                             Gm    F/A
I remember being richer than a king

Bb                                 Bb  F/A
The minutes of the day were golden

Gm                                   Gm    F/A
I recall that when the joint passed 'round

   Bb
My body felt a little colder

[10th fret]
Bb      F/Eb    Bb   F/Eb
Now I'm like a sewer channel

|----------13------------13----|
|-11---10-------11---10----10--|
|-10---10-------10---10--------|
|-12---10-------12---10--------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|

Bb      F/Eb       Bb         F/Eb
Running lime and scag

Bb      F/Eb       Bb       F/Eb
Let me get at the master panel

F [5th fret] Fmaj7
Let me at my stack
|-5----------5-----
|-6----------5----
|-5----------5----
|-7----------7----
|------------8----
|-----------------

[CHORUS I]

    G
The sea refuses no river

Em                 D       C         G        C/G   G
And right now this river's banks are blown

    C/G
The sea refuses no river, Whether stinking and rank

   Gmaj7                      Am
Or red from the tank, whether pure as a spring

        C                        D
There's no damn thing stops this poem

    Am                    F/C
The sea refuses no river

                           C(no 3rd)
And this river is homeward flowing

[repeat INTRO pattern]

I have seen a trace of strain, in others eyes not spoken.
I must admit that I enjoyed their pain, but this time it's me that's broken.
I demand for you and his, thus must be the time, when we decide what freedom
is,
turn water into wine.

        G
For the sea refuses no river
Em                      D      C            G      C/G
we're polluted now, but in our hearts still clean,
C/G
The sea refuses no river
C/G                      Gmaj7
We tried not to age, but time had its rage,
Am                             C                        D
We're washed over stones, from babes into clones of the mean,
Am                             F/C
The sea refuses no river,
                           C5       C6
Won't deny this sulphorous stream.


  Emaj7 [solo]
e|------------------|---------------|
b|--12------12------|---12----12----|
g|------14------13--|------14-------|
d|------------------|------------14-|

|------------16-|-16-17-16-17-16-17-16-17-|-17----
|--12----12-----|-------------------------|-------
|-----14--------|-------------------------|-
|---------------|-------------------------|

                         E    Emaj7  E   Emaj7  Emaj7 Emaj7 |
e|--14-14--14--16--17--|-19--|

| E    Emaj7  E   Emaj7  Emaj7 Emaj7

                     C(8th fret)     Emaj7     C
e|-14----14--14-----|---------------|---------|------|
b|-16-14-16--16-----|--18--17--18---|-----17*-|------|
g|------------------|--17--18--17---|-16------|------|
d|------------------|---------------|---------|------|
a|------------------|---------------|---------|------|
e|------------------|---------------|---------|----2~|
                                        *feedback

 Emaj7    C                   E  Emaj7...
|--------|------------------|-----|
|--------|------------------|-----|
|--------|------------------|-----|
|--4-4-6-|--6-6-7-9--11--13-|-14--|
|--------|------------------|-----|
|--------|------------------|-----|

C G

Am                                          G        C                  G
There was a fool in a dressing robe, riding out the twilight hour,
Am                                          G        C
Lonely and cold in an empty home, trying to assess his power,
C       G/F         C         G/F    C       G/F    C     G/F
But now he's like a stream in flood, swollen by the storm.

|-----------15--------------------15----|
|-13----12----------13--------12----12--|
|-12----12----------12--------12--------|
|-14----12----------14--------12--------|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|

C          G/F         C        G/F
He doesn't care if he sheds his blood,

G            Gmaj7
let him be reborn

|-7----------7----
|-8----------7----
|-7----------7----
|-9----------9----
|------------10---
|-----------------

A                                       F#m                          E
  D(add2)  A D/A A
The sea refuses no river, remember that when a beggar buys a round,
D/A                                    D               Amaj7
The sea refuses no river, when rain fills the gutters, no time for stutters,
Bm                    D                        E
This is our chance to sing and to dance and to clown.
    Bm                   G/D                           D(no3)           [harm
7th fret]
The sea refuses no river,    and rivers were spring to drown.

C     F

G                            Em
The sea refuses no river, no pecking code
D         C       G              G C/G G
respected for the damned.
C/G                       C/G
The sea refuses no river, whether starving and ill,
Gmaj7                   Am
Or strung on some pill, just cuz you own the land,
        C                             D
there's no unique hand that plugs the damn.
Am                       F                         C(no3rd)    C6
The sea refuses no river, and the river is where I am..

    Bb       F       G
The river is where I am



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