Chris Knight - Down The River Lyrics
i was eightteenmy brother was twenty-oneone saturday eveningwhen all the work was donewe went down to the river,had some trot lines to runmy brother walterhad a fight the week beforeknocked a boy named wilsonthrough the pool hall doorthey said you don't mess with wilsonunless you want a warwe put the boat in the water,i made the engine runloaded the lanternagainst the sinking sunand my brother walterwas loading his gunand we went down the riverdown past the coal dockswe wre running our linesheard some drunken boatersracing up behindit was wilson and his cousin,they had trouble on their mindsthey passed on by us,probably going to tend their potswe headed up the riverwith the fish we'd caughtbut before we made the landing,i thought i heard a shotback down the rivermy brother walter fell over the sidei couldn't find him no matter how i triedand looked along the bankbut i couldn't find where they'd hidethey drug the river,they searched it up and downcouldn't find his bodyso they decided that he'd drownedbut i knew betterand wilson bragged around townso one night i floated downright above wilson's shacki hid in the woodstill i saw him walk out backi put a bullet in his headand dropped him in his tracksand we went down the riverdown below the trestlewhere the water runs slowi chained him to an anviland then i let him goand five years lateri ain't told a souland i ain't done much fishing,i hardly wet a linethe death of my brotheris still heavy on my mindi've been thinking wilson's cousinbetter find a place to hidecause i'm going down the riveryeah i'm going down the river
