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On His Way Down To The River
Bill Anderson

He stopped at Fifth on Broad near where the Opry used to be
For one last tiny thought of singing there in '53
He walked into a pawnshop with a ring of gold and watch of silver
Then he continued east on Broad Street on his way down to the river
He stopped at Third on Broad dropped his envelope in a mailbox
A hundred bucks from Maud his old friend from the Broadway nightspot
The world had passed him by and he had nothing more to give her
So he continued east on Broad Street on his way down to the river
He stopped at First on Broad he saw the barges and the bridge
A ship was comin' in and he thought Lord mine never did
Some say it was on purpose while some others beg to differ
They say he slipped and fell on his way down to the river


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  500 Miles Away From Home   8 X 10   A Place in the Country   A Satisfied Mind   A Song Like This   Abilene   Above And Beyond (the Call Of Love)   All I Have To Offer You Is Me   All That Keeps Me Goin'   All The Lonely Women In The World   Altogether Now Let's Fall Apart   Always Remember   And I'm Still Missing You   And Then Came The Bad Years   Angel Band   Apologize   As Long As I Live   As Long as I Live   As Much As I Love You   At the Time   Baby's Blue Again   Back When He Was Hungry   Bad Seed   Beautiful People   Before I Met You   Best It's Ever Been   Best Of Strangers   Beyond The Sunset   Big Railroad Man   Blackberry Winter   Blessed Assurance   Blue Christmas   Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain   Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain   Born   Bright Lights And Country Music   Bright Lights And Country Music (1965)   Bubba Garcia’s (Feat. Willie Nelson)   Building Fires   But You Know I Love You   Calgary   Can I Come Home To You   Can We Still Be Friends   Candy Apple Red   Certain   Charlie Mary And Us   Children   Christmas in Your Arms   Christmas Time's A Comin'   Cincinnati Ohio   Circle In Triangle   City Lights   Coctails   Columbus Stockade Blues   Come Back   Come Sundown   Come Walk With Me   Concrete   Corner Of My Life   Country D.j.   Country Lay On My Mind   Country Music In My Soul   Country Song   Daddy And My Mama And Me   Daddy What If   Death In The Family   Deck of Cards   Did She Mention My Name   Dis-Satisfied   Don't Let It Happen Without Me   Don't She Look Good   Double S   Down Came the Rain   Dreams Are Easy To Come By (Feat. Dailey & Vincent...   Drinking From My Saucer   Easy Come Easy Go   Eight By Ten   Every Time I Turn The Radio On   Farmer And The Lord   Farther Along   Fine Line   First Mrs Jones   Five Little Fingers   Five Little Fingers (1964)   Footprints In The Sand   For Loving You   For Loving You [With Jan Howard]   For The Good Times   Forgiveness   Friends   From A Jack To A King   Games People Play   Gentle on My Mind   Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands   Get While The Gettin's Good   Gettin' To Know You   Golden Guitar   Golden Guitar (1966)   Gone At Last   Gonna Find Me A Bluebird   Gonna Shine It On Again   Gotta Keep Moving   Green Green   Green, Green Grass Of Home   Happiness   Happy State Of Mind   Have I Told You Lately That I Love You   Have You Seen Her   Head To Toe   Help Me Make It Through the Night   Her Wedding Ring's A One Man Band   Here Comes Honey Again   Home And Things   Homesick   Honey Come Back   How Married Are You Mary Ann   How The Other Half Lives   Hungry Eyes   I Am   I Can Do Nothing Alone   I Can't Believe That It's All Over   I Can't Find An Angel   I Can't Mend It   I Can't Wait Any Longer   I Can't Wait Any Longer (1978)   I Don't Have Anyplace To Go   I Don't Love You Anymore   I Don't Want It   I Dreamed About Mama Last Night   I Get The Fever   I Get The Fever (1966)   I Love You Because   I Love You Drops   I Love You Drops (1966)   I Love You More And More Everyday   I Missed Me   I Never Once Stopped Loving You   I Said A Prayer For You Today   I Saw the Light   I Still Believe In Love   I Still Feel The Same About You   I Still Miss Someone   I Thank God For You   I Walk The Line   I Wish It Was Mine   I Wonder If God Likes Country Music   I Wonder Where You Are Tonight   I'd Fight The World   I'll Be Somewhere   I'll Be Waiting   I'll Go Down Swinging   I'm Alright   I'm Happilly Married (and Plan On Staying That Way...   I'm Just Gone   I'm Leaving It Up To You   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry   I'm Used To The Rain   I'm Walking The Dog   I'm Way Ahead Of You   I've Been Loving You Too Long   I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can   If I Loved You Too Much (i'm Sorry)   If It's All The Same To You   If Only You'd Of Happened To Me A Long Time Ago   If You Can Live With It (i Can Live Without It)   In Case You Ever Change Your Mind   In The Misty Moonlight   In The Summertime (you Don't Want My Love)   Introduction   It Came Upon a Midnight Clear   It Can't Go Anywhere But Wrong   It Feels So Good (To Feel So Good)   It Just Don't Take Me Long To Say Goodbye   It Takes A Worried Man   It Was Time For Me To Move On Anyway   It's Been So Long Darling   Joanna   Just A Closer Walk With Thee   Just As I Am   Just Enough To Make Me Want It All   Just For You   Kind Of Needin' I Need   Kiss You All Over   Knowing You're Mine   Ladies Get Lonesome Too   Last Thing On My Mind   Less of Me   Let Me Be The One   Let Me Take You Away   Let Me Whisper Darling One More Time   Liars One Believers Zero   Liars One, Believers Zero   Liars One, Believers Zero (1977)   Light At The River   Little Green Apples   Lonely Is Everything   Lonely Together   Lonely Weekends   Lonesome Is The Mother Of Soul   Long and Warm Ago   Look How I Love You   Looking Back To See   Lord's Prayer   Lot Of Things Different   Love Is a Fragile Thing   Love Is A Sometimes Thing   Love Me And I'll Be Your Best Friend   Love Song For Jackie   Love Takes Care Of Me   Love's Not Love (till You Give It Away)   Loving A Memory   Make Mine Night Time   Mama Never Got To Rock Us   Mama Sang A Song   Mama Sang A Song (1962)   Mama's Face   Married Lady   May You Never Be Alone   Me   Me And Bobby Mcgee   Meanwhile Back In Cleveland   Melinda   Memory No.1   Mercy   Molly   More and More   More Than A Bedroom Thing   Mornin' After Baby Let Me Down   Mountain Dew   Movie Queen   My Christmas List Grows Shorter Every Year   My Elusive Dreams   My Life   My Life (throw It Away If I Want To)   Nail My Shoes To The Floor   Nashville Mirrors   Nearer My God To Thee   Next Time You're In Tulsa   Ninety-Nine   Ninety-Nine   Ninety-Nine (1959)   No One's Gonna Hurt You Anymore   Not Really Living At All   Now That's Love   Number One   Oh Lonesome Me   Ol' Doc Brown   Old Army Hat (including) America The Beautiful (Fe...   Old Country Church   Old Me And You   Old Rugged Cross   On and on and On   Once a Day   Once More   One Mile Over Two Miles Back   One More Sexy Lady   One Solitary Life   One Too Many Mornings   Only Way To Travel   Open Up Your Heart   Papa   Part Of My Heart (will Always Be Yours)   Peace In The Valley   Peanuts And Diamonds   Perfect Angel   Picture From Life's Other Side   Po' Folks   Po' Folks (1961)   Po' Folks Christmas   Poison Red Berries   Poor Sweet Baby   Precious Memories   Proof   Put A Little Love In Your Heart   Quits   Quits (1971)   Remember Me (when The Candle Lights Are Gleaming)   Remembering The Good   Restless   Rhinestone Grindstone (Feat. John Anderson)   Ride Off In The Sunset   Ride Ride Ride   Ring Around A Rosie   Riverboat   Rocky Top   Roller Coaster Ride   Sad Old Shade Of Gray   Saginaw Michigan   Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Satin Sheets   Satisfied Mind   Serenity Prayer   She Could Ruin My Life   She Made Me Remember   Shirt   Silver Bells   Silver Bells (for the film The Lemon Drop Kid)   Since I Met You Baby   Sittin' In An All Nite Cafe   Sleep   Slippin' Away   Smooth Southern Highway   Softly and Tenderly   Someday We'll Be Together   Something To Believe In   Something to Believe in   Sometimes   Standing On The Promises   Stay With Me   Still   Still (1963)   Still [DVD]   Still The One   Still the One [DVD]   Stillba   Stranger In My Place   Sweet Hour of Prayer   Sweet Texas   Swing Low Sweet Chariot   Take Me Home   Take My Hand Precious Lord   Take These Chains from My Heart   Take Up Thy Cross   Talk To Me Ohio   Talking to the Wall   Tell It Like It Was   Thanks   That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome   That's What Made Me Love You   The Cold Hard Facts Of Life   The Corner of My Life   The Lord Knows I'm Drinking   The Old Rugged Cross   The Paper   The Thrill of My Life   The Tip of My Fingers   Then And Only Then   Then I'll Stop Loving You   Think I'll Go Somewhere   This Is A Love Song   This Land The Lord And Me   Three A.m.   Three Times A Lady   Thrill Of My Life   Till Death Do Us Part   Time Out   Time's Been Good To Me   Tip Of My Fingers   Tip of My Fingers   To Be Alone   Today I Started Loving You Again   Together We're One   Tomorrow   Tomorrow's Gonna Be Better Than Today   Too Country   Too Country [DVD]   Trouble in the Amen Corner   Truck Drivin' Man   Truer Love You'll Never Find   Trust Me   Twenty Years   Unicorn   Untouchables   Us   Us   Used To   Velvet And Steel   Walk Out Backwards   Watching It Go   Way Too Much Time on My Hands   We   We Held On   We Made Love (but Where's The Love We Made)   We've Got It All   We've Got Tonight   Wedding Bells   What We're Taking Here Tonight   Wheel of Hurt   When A Man Can't Get A Woman Off His Mind   When I Loved Her   When Liking Turns to Loving   When Two Worlds Collide   When You Love Me   Where Are You Going Billy Boy   Where Could I Go But to the Lord   Where Have All Our Heroes Gone   Where He Leads Me   Where No One Stands Alone   Whiskey Can't Sing   Whiskey Lullaby   Whisper (Feat. Joey and Rory)   Whispering Hope   Who Is The Biggest Fool   Why'd The Last Time Have To Be The Best   Wild Side Of Life   Wild Weekend   Wild Weekend (1968)   Will the Circle Be Unbroken   Wine   Without   Won't It Ever Be Morning   World Of Make Believe   Worry   Yonder Comes A Sucker   Yonder Comes a Sucker   You And Your Sweet Love   You Are My Story (You Are My Song)   You Can Change My World   You Can Have Her   You're Still The Only One I'll Ever Love   You're Worth Waiting For   Your Love Blows Me Away   Yours Love

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