Biography:
Steve Azar was born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi at the entrance to the Mississippi Delta. His mother was raised above the family grocery store located on Highway 61 in Clarksdale, MS near the infamous “Crossroads”. “The Crossroads” is the intersection of Route 61 and Route 49, or the 61/49 split as they call it there, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, made famous in the Robert Johnson song, “Cross Road Blues”. This is where Delta Blues
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No capo
[Intro] (x2)
Em C D
[Verse]
G C D
She wakes up with a smile seldom seen before
G C
Gets ready for work, grabs her keys and floats
D
right out the door
Em C D
Oh, the smell of her perfume says he'll be waitin' there
Em C D
While drivin' down Fourth Avenue, she combs her hair
G C D
Well, he's been waitin' for someone like her all his life
G C D
He's got so much to tell her when the time is right
Em C D
He drifts into another world when she walks down the hall
Em C D
The way he looks at her and says hello, oh says it all
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em
Love is a river runnin' wild and runnin' free
C Bm
Flowin' through the heart like the Mississippi
Am D
flows through me
C D
It's like standin' on a levee lookin' down into
Em
the delta's eyes
C D Em C D
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
[Bridge]
G C D
So they both pretend that this is just another day
G C D
But they know one wrong move, could give it all away
Em C D
With an endless stream of emotion buildin' up inside
C D
He feels born again, and she's never felt so alive
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em
Love is a river runnin' wild and runnin' free
C Bm
Flowin' through the heart like the Mississippi
Am G-C-D
flows through me
C D
It's like standin' on a levee lookin' down into
Em
the delta's eyes
C D G C Em D C
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em C D
Yeah, love is a river and the river's on the rise
Em C D
The river's on the rise
[Instrumental]
Em C D (x2)
(music stops for a few seconds)
[Outro]
G C D
Look out, the river's on the rise
Em C D
Here it comes, the river's on the rise
G C D
Look out, the river's on the rise
Em C D
There they go, the river's on the rise
Yeah
[Intro] (x2)
Em C D
[Verse]
G C D
She wakes up with a smile seldom seen before
G C
Gets ready for work, grabs her keys and floats
D
right out the door
Em C D
Oh, the smell of her perfume says he'll be waitin' there
Em C D
While drivin' down Fourth Avenue, she combs her hair
G C D
Well, he's been waitin' for someone like her all his life
G C D
He's got so much to tell her when the time is right
Em C D
He drifts into another world when she walks down the hall
Em C D
The way he looks at her and says hello, oh says it all
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em
Love is a river runnin' wild and runnin' free
C Bm
Flowin' through the heart like the Mississippi
Am D
flows through me
C D
It's like standin' on a levee lookin' down into
Em
the delta's eyes
C D Em C D
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
[Bridge]
G C D
So they both pretend that this is just another day
G C D
But they know one wrong move, could give it all away
Em C D
With an endless stream of emotion buildin' up inside
C D
He feels born again, and she's never felt so alive
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em
Love is a river runnin' wild and runnin' free
C Bm
Flowin' through the heart like the Mississippi
Am G-C-D
flows through me
C D
It's like standin' on a levee lookin' down into
Em
the delta's eyes
C D G C Em D C
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
[Chorus]
C
You can hear it in his voice
D Em
You can see it in her eyes
C D G
Oh, love is a river and the river's on the rise
C D Em C D
Yeah, love is a river and the river's on the rise
Em C D
The river's on the rise
[Instrumental]
Em C D (x2)
(music stops for a few seconds)
[Outro]
G C D
Look out, the river's on the rise
Em C D
Here it comes, the river's on the rise
G C D
Look out, the river's on the rise
Em C D
There they go, the river's on the rise
Yeah
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