Lyrics

Get Down to the River
Copyright Paul Jarvis and Scott Hamilton


Intro:
My great grand daddy Sonny wasn?t looking for a fight
But the bank had cheated him and his brothers and they had to set things right?

Verse 1:
They?d been taken by them bankers, one too many times
So they started wearing their bandanas just below their eyes
But that last stop in Odessa didn't go as planned
And they wound up running from a Sheriff?s posse clean to the Rio Grande

Chorus:
Hey, come on boys get down to the river
Ya gotta hang tough or you'll hang together
Come on boys get down to the River
All that matters right now
Ya gotta lose that posse and get across
Somehow.

Verse 2:
They thundered down the trail, their leather stained with sweat
With the sheriff on their tail and the border just ahead
Well those money bags were heavy and that law was closing in.
It was looking like Sonny and his brothers were running in a race they couldn?t win

Chorus:
So come on boys get down to the river
Ya gotta hang tough or you'll hang together
Come on boys get down to the River
All that matters right now
Ya gotta lose that posse and get across
Somehow

Bridge:
Sonny carried bags of bill just for times like this
He poured them into the water and blew that posse a kiss
Well, they forgot about Sonny
And ran for that money
They didn?t know it was counterfeit??? They said

Outro:
Get down to the river
Get down to the river, now
Everybody get down to the river
I said get down to the River
You show ?em Grand Daddy
And thanks for the big ole hacienda here in Mexico
Everybody, come on boys get down to the river
Ya gotta hang tough or you'll hang together