Down to the River

	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
	You liked to drive so I would go shotgun
	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
	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
	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 don't give a damn about what those people say
	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