Hayes Carll - Rivertown lyrics

rate me

Take me to the river town

Where you can't tell night from day

and everything's forgiven, that did not wash away

Where dreamin' comes to easy

and livin's twice as hard

and everything is buried, beneath the water and the stars

Here I am from Corsicana

Wayward on the storm

I been rollin' empty sevens, since the day that I was born

Got no rings upon my fingers, no ink beneath my skin

I'll be as clean goin' out, as I was comin' in

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I'm gonna wash my sins in the Angelina River

When all that she can take from me, is all that I can give her

Time will bring you down, and time will make you old

I turned my back some time ago and I am going home

Well I wandered through the pine trees, like an outlaw in the rain

I rambled through big thicket with a pistol and my name

Run away restless angels, don't waste your love on me

Just lay me down in a river town, and home is where I'll be

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