Living on the riverside taking it all in my stride
Living on the riverside, i’m taking life like a big long ride
You stay on your side and i’ll stay on mine
You take what you want and i’ll take the sunshine
Dit dit dit dit do …
Ah–, ah–
I said the world don’t owe me no living
I said the world don’t owe me no living
I said the world don’t owe me no living
I said the world don’t owe me no living
(darren costin)
I wanna go back to the riverside
To the place i was born
I wanna go back to the riverside
To the place i call home
You took me to the city
When i was very young
No friends and no photographs
A new life we’d just begun
And now i’m old enough to tell you
How i feel
This city life is not for me
I wanna go back to the riverside
To the place i was born
I wanna go back to the riverside
To the place i call home
You waited at home i know
For a man i knew well
Your face was so full of tears
You were quiet as well
But you’d made up your mind
That you’d had enough
And you said you had no time
So i guess things were tough enough
You took me to the city
When i was very young
No friends and no photographs
A new life we’d just begun
And now i’m old enough to tell you
How i feel
This city life is not for me
And now i’m old… old enough (x4)
Old enough to leave you
Don’t want no more cities
I just wanna go home
So take me to the riverside
To the place i call home
Don’t want no more cities
I just wanna go home
So take me to the riverside (x3)
To the place i call home (call home)
I wanna go back to the riverside (x2)
Don’t want no more cities
I just wanna go home
( rossi / frost )
She left me cold and hungry by the riverside
She left me so downhearted there and i really cried
About mistakes i’d made and it’s a crying shame
I can’t believ the way they start all over again
She left me cold and hungry by the riverside
Without a word or a note, so i couldn’t find
A reason for to stay where i wanted to stay
There didn’t seem to me to be anyway
I got away to the city from the riverside
And it was oh, such a pity ‘cos i really tried
It didn’t make me feel how i wanted to feel
I turned around to be where i wanted to be
I got away to the city from the riverside
And it was all nitty gritty there, however i tried
I didn’t wait to feel how i knew i would feel
I had to turn around, ‘cos i wouldn’t be found
Don’t blame me or point your finger at me
I’m not blind and i see, don’t point your finger at me
Don’t you do it, don’t you do it to me
Don’t point your finger my way
Don’t put the blame all my way
She found me so light-hearted by the riverside
She didn’t cry or try and i didn’t mind
‘cos i just had to stay wher i wanted to stay
And the mistakes i made, i made them anyway
She left me cold and hungry by the riverside
And it was oh, such a pity ‘cos i really tried
It didn’t make me feel how i wanted to feel
I turned around to be where i wanted to be
Don’t blame me or point your finger at me
I’m not blind and i see, don’t point your finger at me
Don’t you do it, don’t you do it to me
Don’t point your finger my way
Don’t put the blame all my way
She left me cold and hungry by the riverside
And it was oh, such a pity ‘cos i really tried
It didn’t make me feel how i wanted to feel
I turned around to be where i wanted to be
She left me cold and hungry by the riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
Riverside, riverside, riverside
Riverside………..
Seen her get up, seen her go down
Down to the riverside
Seen her jump into the river and drown
Down to the riverside
People do just what they will
Don’t matter to the river, it’s running still
Sun come up, sun go down
Down to the riverside
Sun jump into the river and drown
Down to the riverside
Every day just like the last
We sit and watch the water pass
Came a day the built a bridge
Down to the riverside
Over the way, on top of the ridge
Down to the riverside
Built a bridge for people to cross
But every other day, someone jumping off
You might think some boys they got it made
Down to the riverside
They got the money and the women and a place in the shade
Down to the riverside
That ain’t no way to ease the pain
Can’t listen to the river when it calls your name
