The Soulpass Project

  E            E/F#         E           E/F#
I traveled the banks of the River of Jordan
   E             E/F#         F#
To find where it flows to the sea.
  F#m           F#m/G#      F#m             F#m/G#
I looked in the eyes of the cold and the hungry
      F#m       F#m/G#     F#m
And I saw I was looking at me.
A                   F#m
I wanted to know if life had a purpose
    A                        B7
And what it all means in the end.
       E         E/F#        E        E/F#
In the silence I listened to voices inside me
         E        E/F#      E
And they told me again and again.

       E/F#     B7                       E    E/F#  E
The is only one river. There is only one sea.
       E/F#          B7                        E   E/F#  E
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
                  C#m
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
               F#7                    B7
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
           E      E/F# E         E/F#         E    E/F#  E
We are the father,       mother, daughter and son.
         E/F#        F#7          B7
From the dawn of creation, we are one.
       E    E/F#  E
We are one.

Every blade of grass on the mountain
Every drop in the sea
Every cry of a newborn baby
Every prayer to be free
Every hope at the end of a rainbow
Every song ever sung
Is a part of the family of woman and man
And that means everyone.

We are only one river. We are only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
We are only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
We are the father, mother, daughter and son
From the dawn of creation, we are one.
We are one.

Chord fingering suggestions

       (Standard tuning)
          E A D G B E
          -----------
E        [0 2 2 1 0 0]
E/F#     [2 2 2 1 0 0]
F#       [2 4 4 3 2 2]
F#m      [2 4 4 2 2 2]
F#m/G#   [4 4 4 2 2 2]
A        [0 0 2 2 2 0]
B7       [x 2 1 2 0 2]
C#m      [x 4 6 6 5 4]

I believe this is the only place on the web you’ll find chords for this song. If you find another, I’d be curious to see it (I looked quite a bit). I think this is a reasonably accurate transcription, it’ll surely get you through. For the last two stanzas, just play the chords from the first two and it should fit well enough.

The inspiration for transcribing it came on a pep band CAA bus trip, watching a scene in the movie Airplane!, where Randy the flight attendant plays it to Lisa, the girl on the plane who had fallen ill.

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