: There's a river runs through this valley Cold and deep and black Comin' like a tombstone shadow across my back (CHORUS) Trouble river, six foot high
true Or is it something worse that sends me Down to the river though I know the river is dry Down to the river, my baby and I Oh down to the river we
: Your mamma's yappin' in the back seat Tell her to push over and move them big feet Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment
: Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate We wouldn
: Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don't know where it's flowing I took a wrong turn
: You been hurt and you're all cried out you say You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way You packed your bags and all alone you wanna
: Put on your best dress baby And darlin', fix your hair up right Cause there's a party, honey Way down beneath the neon lights All day you've been working
: Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor
: I went out walking the other day Seen a little girl crying along the way She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again Someday your crying girl
: Driving home she grabs something to eat Turns a corner and drives down her street Into a row of houses she just melts away Like the scenery in another
: Do you still say your prayers little darlin' Do you go to bed at night Prayin' that tommorow, everything will be alright But tommorow's fall in number
: I see you walking, baby, down the street Pushing that baby carriage at your feet I see the lonely ribbon in your hair Tell me I am the man for whom
: Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that I can't And that no matter what I do it's all over now between me and you girl
: Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun There to greet a working man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
: My feets were flyin' down the street just the other night When a Hong Kong special pulled up at the light What was inside, man, was just c'est magnifique
: When I lost you honey sometimes I think I lost my guts too And I wish God would send me a word send me something I'm afraid to lose Lying in the heat
letters I wrote When our love was young and we were bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel a hundred years old There's a river