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Chris Knight
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i was eightteen
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my brother was twenty-one
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one saturday evening
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when all the work was done
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we went down to the river,
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had some trot lines to run
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my brother walter
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had a fight the week before
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knocked a boy named wilson
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through the pool hall door
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they said you don't mess with wilson
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unless you want a war
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we put the boat in the water,
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i made the engine run
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loaded the lantern
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against the sinking sun
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and my brother walter
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was loading his gun
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and we went down the river
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down past the coal docks
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we wre running our lines
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heard some drunken boaters
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racing up behind
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it was wilson and his cousin,
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they had trouble on their minds
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they passed on by us,
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probably going to tend their pots
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we headed up the river
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with the fish we'd caught
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but before we made the landing,
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i thought i heard a shot
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back down the river
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my brother walter fell over the side
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i couldn't find him no matter how i tried
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and looked along the bank
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but i couldn't find where they'd hide
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they drug the river,
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they searched it up and down
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couldn't find his body
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so they decided that he'd drowned
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but i knew better
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and wilson bragged around town
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so one night i floated down
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right above wilson's shack
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i hid in the woods
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till i saw him walk out back
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i put a bullet in his head
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and dropped him in his tracks
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and we went down the river
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down below the trestle
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where the water runs slow
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i chained him to an anvil
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and then i let him go
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and five years later
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i ain't told a soul
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and i ain't done much fishing,
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i hardly wet a line
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the death of my brother
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is still heavy on my mind
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i've been thinking wilson's cousin
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better find a place to hide
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cause i'm going down the river
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yeah i'm going down the river
Chris Knight - Down The River
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