Down By the River - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Be on my side or be on your side There is no reason for you to hide This much madness is too much sorrow It's impossible to make it today Hey, hey, ooh-ooh She could drag me over the rainbow Send me away Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river Dead - shot her dead You take my hand, i'll take your hand Together we may get away

In a cavern, in a canyon Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner And his daughter Clementine. Light she was and like a fairy And her shoes were number nine Herring boxes, without topses Sandals were for Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Drove she ducklings to the water Every morning just at nine Hit her foot against a splinter Fell into the foaming brine. Ruby lips above the water Blowing bubbles, soft and fine But, alas, I was no swimmer So I lost my Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Then the miner, forty niner He began to peak and pine Thought he oughta join his daughter Now he sleeps with Clementine. In my dreams she still doth haunt me Robed in garments, soaked in brine Though in life I used to hug her Now she's dead, I draw the line. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. How I missed he, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine So I kissed her little sister And I forgot my Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine You are lost been gone, Clementine. Clementine.

Last night I was cool at the pool hall Held the table for eleven games Nothing was easier than the first seven I beat a woman with varicose veins. She stopped to see herself in the mirror Fix her hair and hide heir veins And she lost the game. Next day I went to the dentist He pulled some teeth and I lost some blood We'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us My wives and I were all choked up. I recall how Caesar and Cleo Made love in the Milky Way They needed boats and armies to get there I know there's a better way. I saw the movie and I read the book But when it happened to me I sure was glad I had what it took To get away. Gotta get away, gotta get away Gotta get away, gotta get away I'm making another delivery Of chemicals and sacred roots I'll hold what you have to give me But I'll use what I have to use. The lasers are in the lab The old man is dressed in white clothes Everybody says he's mad No one knows the things that he knows. No one knows, no one knows No one knows, no one knows I'm sleepin' in every hallway I just can't accept the stares I'm using too many covers I'm warm now so I don't care. I'm thinkin' of no one in my mind Sedan delivery is a job I know I'll keep It sure was hard to find. Hard to find. hard to find Hard to find. hard to find