The Blue Warblers

Lyrics

The Blue Warblers | Lyrics from Pretty Good

Don’t Sleep Down By The River Tonight

by Kim Beggs

Kim Beggs - Lead Vocal/Guitar
Natalie Edelson - Harmony Vocal/Banjo
Jesse Zubot- Fiddle



Don’t sleep down by the river tonight
You won’t make it through to another morning
Cold’s gonna get into your marrow
Seems like livin’ you brings me sorrow

Sweet lord givin’ out too much trouble
Sweeping you off or sweeping me over
Gotta get down, knees to the tundra
Pray he’s not going pull me under

Don’t go leaving me on my lonesome
Check your pockets maybe I want some
Pebbles and nickels and tickets to Dawson
Dance to the fiddler you know he’s got some

Peggy Lou and Missy too
Went to river they heard the news
Lost another brother going two by two
Danced to the rhythm of the old cuckoo

Don’t sleep down by the river tonight
You won’t make it through to another morning
Cold’s gonna get into your marrow
Seems like livin’ only brings me sorrow