Down on the river it's an easy kind of life everybody here's feeling fine

No need to worry or get in a hurry nothing to spend but time

Light up a smoke and tell a few jokes and pass the old jug around

We're gonna get right on a Saturday night when the sun goes down

Down on the river down on the river

Just some old boys a making a lot of noise

Down on the river down on the river down on the river

If anyone calls tell them we're all down on the river



Well we'll go fishing by the light of the moon and bait them hooks by hand

Early in the morning take them off the line fry 'em all up in a pan

We gotta get home while we still got a job or we'll have to answer to the man

And everybody knows we gotta go we'll be back again

Down on the river...

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Down on the river...