Gone Too Soon

Down on Main Street

Where we first met

You were singing on the corner

That's all you did

People would gather

To hear you howl and moan

Even then, you just a kid

As you went down the river

With a bottle of liquor

Strumming on a tune

You were gone, gone too soon

Around midnight

Out on block island

You were singing like lightnin'

On Maggie's farm

The party on clay head

Had everybody naked

You were feeling shy

So I gave you my guitar

As you went down the river

With a bottle of liquor

Strumming on a tune

You were gone, gone too soon

You were gone too soon

Last I heard

You hitched and hiked

Al the way down

To muscle shoals

And over your shoulder

The guitar I gave you

That's all you ever needed

And so the story goes

As you went down the river

With a bottle of liquor

Strumming on a tune

You were gone, gone too soon

You were gone, gone too soon