The Band - Amazon (River of Dreams): chords

D/F#                     G
I went on the river for money,
   D                   G
I sold my old rotten shack
Em          D/F#            G
For a rusty tanker leaking oil,
Em              D/F#          G
and the burning sun was on my back

Traveled up the ragin' river,
I watched the jungle burn
And in the reddenin' twilight,
I wondered would I ever return

Chorus:
Am           G/B       C
Ridin' on a river of dreams
 B7      Em
Broken dreams
     C           A/C#      D
I'm ridin' on a river of dreams
Em  C Em    C
Amazon, Amazon
Am               D
Is it heaven or hell?
   Em
Amazon

An eagle flew above us,
I felt the breezes blow
Fish with teeth like ivory,
waited down below

On shore they cut and hammered,
and fenced them in with wire
While ancient fires in the jungle,
burned our souls like fire

Chorus

What kind of creature's gonna
rise up from these ashes?
What's gonna fly in
the moonlight feathers aglow?
What kind of rain could come
in from these sorrows?
Nobody knows, nobody knows

At dawn we crossed the rapids,
a place where few men go
I felt the desolation,
where nothing seemed to grow

When I got my wages,
I hung my head and cried
I could not stop these visions,
that swept in like the tide

Chorus

Oh, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon