Laura Veirs

Up The River

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Verse
Riff
Bb Billy was a young A4 man gone astra Gm7 y
Bb Bottle at his lip A4 s all night and Gm7 day
Chorus
Bb Mama said they're gonna send you up the A4 river some Gm7 day
Mama said they're gonna send you up the river someday
Verse
Whiskey ate big holes in Billy's head
Summer's day he shot spud murphy dead
Chorus
He said I'm headed up the river as he watched the blood pour red
I'm headed up the river as he watched the blood pour red
Mama asked lord jesus what to do at the door came knocking boys in blue
We're gonna send him up the river and make him pay his dues ma'am
And so she watched him round that riverbend go billy felt a chill pass 'cross him
Cold they sent him up the river to turn a young man old