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