Fletcher C Johnson - Gone Down the River Lyrics

And I am almost twenty-five
It's the strange things I've seen that keep my alive

I've seen a beautiful woman with a tattooed face
Cry herself to sleep for things she couldn't erase
Seen a love note written in the hard concrete
By a love sick boy who resembled me
Oh where's my baby she is something sweet
Seen 9 men living up in a tree
I sent them food while the cops chased me
Seen a teenage boy with an old age beard
Move deep into the woods to escape a fear
What it was was never too clear
His parents put it there

And I've loved all of my days
I've spent them in the most peculiar place

Spent a week atop a mountain slept through stormy nights
Spent a week below a bridge slept through stormy nights
Lived with ten boys circling in total peace
Lived with one girl we only spoke through our teeth
Where's my baby she is something sweet
I caught six rides going from the east to the west
Only to find I need the east to rest at night
Lived in a basement of a house full to the top
Of relics one woman had never forgot
She let me touch them is they returned to their spot
Oh she was good to me
She's good to me
She's good to me
She's something sweet

And I know myself
Well I found me in a book about a boy on a quest

He went down to the water and he saw himself
He bent down to the river and he kissed himself
He went down to the water and he saw himself
He bent down to the river and he kissed himself
Where's my baby she is something sweet
I went down to the water and I saw myself
I bent down to the river and I kissed myself
I said where's my baby she is something sweet
Where's my baby she is something sweet
I went down to the water and I saw myself
I bent down to the river and I kissed myself
I said where's my baby she is something sweet
Where's my baby she is something sweet
I went down to the water and I saw myself
I bent down to the river and I kissed myself
I said where's my baby she is something sweet
Where's that little old love of my life
I went down to the water and I saw myself
I bent down to the river and I kissed myself
I said where's my baby she is something sweet
She's sweet to me