St. Gabriel

All the sad songs about leaving Not about coming home I've been down in St. Gabriel Nowhere to go. The sun sets in St. Gabriel Fiery red And the fields all around Are brown and dead. In St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel They said I killed a man That threatened my life But I went to prison Because I was his wife. And I had stood it As long as I could Oh, I went down I went down to St. Gabriel What I had to do. Oh, St. Gabriel St. Gabriel It's a hopeless life And it's a crying shame. It was me or him And I took the blame. You can feel the rythmn Through the walls It shakes the leevee It shakes us all. In St. Gabriel St. Gabriel. Now they say I'm right And I'm free to go. So I'm standing out here By the side of the road. All the sad songs about leaving Not about coming home Oh, I've been down, down in St. Gabriel With nowhere, nowhere to go. In St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel.