Down To The River

Take me down to the river

Where I can hold your body close to mine

We can listen to the rhythm

Of that old water rollin'

You can stay with me until the mornin' light

Well, I found you on a Louisiana roadside park

Beat up, broke down, no place left to turn

Well, I took you back to Texas

Under a harvest moon

We found a little place to call our own

We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years

Married at the tender age of twenty-one

Rollin' down the highways

Dirtroads, and the by-ways

You liked to drive, so I could go shotgun

And we'd go down to the river

Where I would hold your body close to mine

We'd listen to the rhythm

Of that old water rollin'

You'd stay with me until the mornin' light

Well, somewhere throught the years

Somebody turned your head

And took my love so far away from me

Yeah, he hauled you off to Boulder

Where the air gets much colder

Than this southern boy would ever like to see

And I think of callin' you on the lonely nights

When being alone gets the best of me

But this, here, whiskey bottle

Will take me to a place

Where you and I will always be

Want to go down to the river

Where I could hold your body close to mine

And we'd listen to the rhythm

Of that old water rollin'

And you'd stay with me until the mornin' light

And when you came back everybody said I was a fool

'Cause I took you back without two words to say

Yeah, but I couldn't go on livin'

Thinkin' about all I was missin'

And I don't give a damn 'bout what those people say

Want to go down to the river?

Lets go down to the river

Gonna go down to the river