I said Oh brother lets go down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Oh brother lets go down

Down to the river to pray

No satisfaction for the bastard child

Had me running in circles while the fire is wild

Going face to face with the dead and wrong

The Devil said I couldn't hang around anymore

My tears they could fill a bucket of sin

I wondered how I'd fall into the mess that I'm in

So I came to the world and everything thats its got

Thought i had handle but the handle got hot

I went down to the river to pray

Studying about that good ol' way

And you should wear the golden crown

Good lord won't you show me the way

And Oh brother, lets go down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Whoa brother lets go down

Down to the river to pray

This sweet young philly with her lips painted red

She put her eyes on my soul then she grabbed on my hand

Said "I got just the thing that'll cure your disease."

Looked me in the eye and kissed on my cheek

Said "all my life, I've been looking for you. Wondered when the Devil, he would finally come through. There ain't no rest for the Lust and the lies from this point on scales on your eyes."

Well I wrestled around in the muck and the mud

Seemed like the sun wouldn't shine for quite a while

Cause heavy the load, then tend to my feet

Trying to find a path that I couldn't see

Oh then I cried out form the wilderness

Was it something I did, or something I missed

Then I cried, I must confess

Where the (??) I need something else

I went down to the river to pray

Studying about that good ol' way

And you should wear the golden crown

Good lord won't you show me the way

And Oh brother, lets go down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Whoa brother lets go down

Down to the river to pray

Well, I heard about a man that made the blind man see

So, I thought I'd find redemption down on Kickapoo Creek

That muddy water, the river would flow

Thought the water would save my soul

Then he cried out "been walking with you, been wondering when You'd let the light come through, while I sang for all the lost, its About damn time them scales came falling off."

I went down to the river to pray

Studying about that good ol' way

And you should wear the golden crown

Good lord won't you show me the way

And Oh brother, lets go down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Whoa brother lets go down

Down to the river to pray

I said whoa brother, lets go down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Lets go down, won't you come on down

Down to the river to pray