Some of us turn off the lights and we live In the moonlight shooting by Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark To be where the angels fly Pretty maids all in a row lined up Outside my cabin door The only one of them I ever wanted wanting me Was the girl from the Red River shore Well, I sat by her side and for a while I tried To make that girl my wife She gave me her best advice and she said "Go home and lead a quiet life" Well, I've been to the east and I've been to the west And I've been out where the black winds roar Somehow, though, I never did get that far With the girl from the Red River shore I knew when I first laid eyes on her I could never be free One look at her and I just knew She should always be with me Well, the dream dried up a long time ago Don't know where it is anymore True to life, true to me Was the girl from the Red River shore Well now I'm wearing the cloak of misery And I've tasted jilted love The frozen smile upon my face Fits me like a glove Well I can't escape from the memory Of the one that I'll always adore All those nights when I was in the arms Of the girl from the Red River shore Well, we're living in the shadows of a fading past Trapped in the fires of time I've tried not to ever hurt anybody And to stay out of a life of crime When it's all been said and done I never did know the score One more day is another day away From the girl from the Red River shore Well, I'm a stranger here in a strange land But I know this is where I belong I'll ramble and I'll gamble for the one I love And the hills will give me a song Nothing looks familiar to me But I know that I've stayed here before Once, a thousand nights ago With the girl from the Red River shore Well, I went back once to see about it I went back to straighten it out Everybody that I talked to had seen us there Said they didn't know who I was talking about Sun went down on me a long time ago I've had to fall back from the door I wish I could have spent every hour of my life With the girl from the Red River shore Now, I've heard of a guy who lived a long time ago A man full of sorrow and strife That if somebody around him died and was dead He knew how to bring 'em on back to life Well, I don't know what kind of language that he might have used Or if they do that kind of thing anymore Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all Except the girl from the Red River shore

Stake my future on a hell of a past Looks like tomorrow is coming on fast Ain't complaining 'bout what I got Seen better times, but who has not? Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go Find out something only dead men know Honest as the next jade rolling that stone When I come knocking don't throw me no bone I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home If you don't like it you can leave me alone I can snap my fingers and require the rain From a clear blue sky and turn it off again I can stroke your body and relieve your pain And charm the whistle off an evening train Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go Find out something only dead men know I give what I got until I got no more I take what I get until I even the score You know I love you and furthermore When it's time to go you got an open door I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain You give something up for everything you gain Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain Pay for your ticket and don't complain Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go, go Find out something only dead men know One of these days and it won't be long Going down in the valley and sing my song I will sing it loud and sing it strong Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go Find out something only dead men know Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go Find out something only dead men know Silvio, silver and gold Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold Silvio, I gotta go Find out something only dead men know Come on Come on