Down To The River

Capo: 3rd Fret (mute) Take me down to the river Where I can hold your body close to mine We'd listen to the rhythm Of that old water rollin You can stay with me until the morning light I found you in a Louisiana roadside park Beat up, broke down no place left to turn 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, dirt roads and the byways Would you like to drive so I would go shotgun CHORUS We'd go down to the river Where I could hold your body close to mine We'd listen to the rhythm Of that old water rollin You can stay with me until the morning light Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head And has taken my sweet love so far from me Yeah he swept you off to Boulder Where the air it gets much colder Than this southern boy would ever like to see I think of calling you on lonely nights When being alone gets the best of me Yeah but this here whiskey bottle Will take me to a place Where you and I will always be CHORUS When you came back home everybody said I was a fool 'Cause I took you back without a word to say But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin' And I donÕt give a damn about what those people say. CHORUS We'd go down to the river Where I could hold your body close to mine We'd listen to the rhythm Of that old water rollin You can stay with me until the morning light I wanna go down to the river Take me down to the river I wanna go down to the river