(I Go) Down To The River

(I Go) Down To The River - Johnny Burnette

In the night when the town is still and asleep

In the dark of the moon I've a date I must keep

I go down I go down I go down

I go down I go down

To the river

All alone all alone I walk to the shore

To the love that I pray will be waiting once more

I go down I go down I go down

I go down I go down

To the river

How I long for your kiss how I long

For your arms

How I need to hold you again

Like a dream you appear in the night you are near

And I reach out to touch you but then

You are gone and I know I long and I yearn

What the river has claimed it will never return

I go down I go down I go down

I go down I go down

To the river to cry

I go down

Down to the river to cry