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I was eighteen
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My brother was twenty-one
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One Saturday evening
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When all the work was done
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We went down to the river
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Had some trot lines to run
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My brother Walter
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Had a fight the week before
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Knocked a boy named Wilson
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Through the pool hall door
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They said you don't mess with Wilson
C Em
Unless you want a war
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I put the boat in the water
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And I made the engine run
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I loaded the lantern
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Against a sinking sun
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And my brother Walter
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Was loading his gun
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And we went down the river
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Down past the coal docks
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We were runnin' our lines
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Heard some drunken boaters
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Racing up behind
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It was Wilson and his cousin
C Em
Had trouble on their minds
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They passed on by us
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Probably going to tend their pot
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We headed up the river
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With the fish we'd caught
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But before we made the landing
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I thought i heard a shot
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Back down the river
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My brother Walter fell over the side
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I couldn't his body
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No matter how I tried
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And I looked along the bank
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But i couldn't find where they'd hide
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They drug the river
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They searched it up and down
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Couldn't find his body
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So they decided that he'd drowned
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But I knew better
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And Wilson bragged around town
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So one night I floated down
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Right above Wilson's shack
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I hid in the woods
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'Til I saw him walk out back
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I put a bullet in his head
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Dropped him in his tracks
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And we went down the river
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Down below the trestle
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Where the water runs slow
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I chained him to an anvil
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Then I let him go
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And five years later
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I ain't told a soul
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And I ain't done much fishing
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I hardly wet a line
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The death of my brother
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Is still heavy on my mind
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I've been thinking Wilson's cousin
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Better find a place to hide
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Cause I'm going down the river
G D Em
Yeah I'm going down the river
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- 1. Chord Gitar Chris Knight - Down The River Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Chris Knight - Down The River Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan