And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away When I was a child my family would travel Down to

Are we left all alone? Mother has no time but she cares for me And she cries all the tears I am joining now the river flow I am three days old Now the time has come, you have to be a man I don't want to destroy The only chance I have to survive down here

Step by step I know you're hurting Well, there's a bridge and there's a river That I still must cross As I'm going on my journey Oh, I might be lost And there's a road I have to follow A place I have to go

Oh dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're going I'm going your way Two drifters off to see the world There's such a lot of world We're after the same rainbows And, waiting round the bend My huckleberry friend

A man appeared before Wells Fargo Wells Fargo's stage driver man Wearing long white linen And a dust flour sack over his head They call him Black Bart P08 The highway bandit poetry man Leaving his poem, disappeared Like a ghost on his own, all on his own

I wanna know Am I in love to stay? Take me to the river I don't know why I love you like I do Won't you tell me Won't you wash me in the water Wash me in the water After all these changes that you put me through You stole my money and my cigarettes

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in 'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin A nuclear era, but I have no fear London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared and battle come

Asked sweet mama, Let me be her kid She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep it hid" Well I know my baby, If I see her in the dark I said I know my rider, If I see her in the dark Now, I goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by my side Still

I see a dust trail following an old red Nova Baby blue eyes, your head on my shoulder You don't look a day over fast cars and freedom That sunset river bank first time feeling Wait, baby, don't move, right there it is T-shirt hanging off a dogwood branch

From a river to a flood I see love around me I see love around me (love around me) Come on, let's run and get lost in the crowd Into the light as the night's comin' down I'm double-tappin', I'm focusin' now We're focusin' now This is such a perfect place