Pokey Lafarge - Cairo, Illinois lyrics

rate me

It’s not where you’re from

But what you had when you happened to come from

Boy listen,

See that I have none

Eatin’ and drinkin’ would be all that I do

And if it’s not what you do

But what you got then I got less

And out of loving or playing, I like loving the best

Now baby, take me with you when you go

Take me to the bridge where the rivers collide

Down in Cairo , Illinois on a Saturday night

I might jump in

Everyone wants to hear a song

That helps the day seem half as long

But I’m trying

I want you to see that I’m trying babe

If you’ve lost your ticket to paradise

Or you spent your money for the bus

It is cold coffee in the morning, slow trumpet at dusk

Now baby, catch that old midnight train

Take me to the bridge where the rivers collide

Down in Cairo , Illinois on a Saturday night

I might jump in

Everyone wants to hear a song

That helps the day seem half as long

But I’m trying

I want you to see that I’m trying babe

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Down by the levee

Where you swear God’s got you ashamed

Just cast your doubts and the mistakes that you’ve made

Into that old wishing well, well well well well

Don’t the river look lonesome at twilight?

Well, there ain’t no looking back

It is just a broken fiddle and an old tote sack

In the morning you’ll be going South

Take me to the bridge where the rivers collide

Down in Cairo , Illinois on a Saturday night

I might jump in

Everyone wants to hear a song

That helps the day seem half as long

But I’m trying

I want you to see that I’m trying babe

I want you to feel that I’m trying babe

I want you to know that I’m trying