Walking By the River - Dr. John

Walking by the river

Watching my tears roll out to the sea

Walking by the river

Stormy trouble will never drown for me

If pain was a sailor

I could sail a ocean-liner

If pain was a jailer

I could shackle that ocean-liner

If pain was a tailor

I could sew that ocean-liner

To a river-boat, to rest on

On up to South Carolina

'Stead of walking by the river

Watching my tears roll out to the sea

Walking by the river

Oh, stormy trouble won’t ever drown for me

See, I must be fool enough

To hang out in a hurricane

Long enough to wash away

My whole family name

And fool enough to wait

In ten feet of rain

If I drown, I got nobody

But myself to blame

Yeah, blues with whiskey

I stay drunk all the time

Yeah, if bad news was risky

I’d be convicted of every crime

Yeah, if happiness was money

I’d never have a lousy dime

If I could just raise the price of a ticket

I’d head on up the line

'Stead of walking by the river

Watching my tears roll out to sea

Walking by the river

Stormy trouble won’t drown for me

Still walking by the river

Watching my tears roll out to the sea

Walking by the river

Stormy troubles ain’t gonna drown for me

Walking by the river

Been watching my tears roll out to the sea

Walking by the river

Stormy trouble ain’t gonna drown for me