The Flint River washes that red Georgia dirt The sun sets slow and the stars shine bright Where I grew up, we rode in trucks Ridin' down Buck Island Road Down where I was born was heaven on earth We raised cotton, corn, a little cane, and kids You either

And you want to travel blind And you want to travel with her Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she

Never knew how much that muddy water meant to me But I learned how to swim and I learned who I was Down by the river on a Friday night A pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight Talking 'bout cars and dreaming 'bout women Never had a plan just a livin' for

You walk all over me You never thought I'd be The one who's laughing now You're goin' down You're goin' down, down Now that you're goin' down Took me down to the river So I could drown, drown, drown Until you came around

And into the river we'd dive I come from down in the valley Where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields

Alta Mira, like the wind that moves the sea Alta Mira, let it set your spirit free Alta Mira, we can live in harmony Yesterday I said goodbye to all my misery I floated down the river just to see what I could see I came upon the ocean and its beauty took

Let me go, boys Where the rivers all run dry If I should fall from grace with god Where no doctor can relieve me If I'm buried 'neath the sod But the angels won't receive me Let me go down in the mud Let them go, boys Let them go down in the mud

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Welcome to the farm Where you can roll your windows down Baby take my arm, Ain't hearin' nothin' such a beautiful sound? We can take the tractor down the road, go walkin' 'round the bend Lay by the river, climb up in the barn

Clap your hands now Liquid spirit And fill your water tank Go ‘head and clap your hands now Un re-route the rivers Let the dammed water be There’s some people down the way that’s thirsty Watch what happens when the people catch wind Dip down and take a

Ooh, down by river Down by the river, I was drawn by your grace Into tempest of oblivion and to the lovers-place I was stuck in a puddle, full of tears and unwise Dark doings now I know, that we've paid unlike Honey I know, hey when we walked arm in arm