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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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

C(no 3) / / /

C(no 3) / / / C6 / / / /

 

I remember being richer than a king

The minutes of the day were golden

I recall that when the joint passed 'round

My body felt a little colder

Now I'm like a sewer channel

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Running lime and scag

Let me get at the master panel

F [5th fret] Fmaj7

Let me at my stack

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The sea refuses no river

And right now this river's banks are blown

The sea refuses no river, Whether stinking and rank

Or red from the tank, whether pure as a spring

There's no damn thing stops this poem

The sea refuses no river

C(no 3rd)

And this river is homeward flowing

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.

For the sea refuses no river

we're polluted now, but in our hearts still clean,

The sea refuses no river

We tried not to age, but time had its rage,

We're washed over stones, from babes into clones of the mean,

The sea refuses no river,

Won't deny this sulphorous stream.

Emaj7 [solo]

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e|--14-14--14--16--17--|-19--|

C(8th fret) Emaj7 C

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b|-16-14-16--16-----|--18--17--18---|-----17*-|------|

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*feedback

Emaj7 C E Emaj7...

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There was a fool in a dressing robe, riding out the twilight hour,

Lonely and cold in an empty home, trying to assess his power,

But now he's like a stream in flood, swollen by the storm.

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He doesn't care if he sheds his blood,

let him be reborn

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D(add2) A D/A A

The sea refuses no river, remember that when a beggar buys a round,

The sea refuses no river, when rain fills the gutters, no time for stutters,

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.

 

The sea refuses no river, no pecking code

respected for the damned.

The sea refuses no river, whether starving and ill,

Or strung on some pill, just cuz you own the land,

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..

The river is where I am

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