Walking Into Clarksdale Lyrics

When I was born I was running as my feet hit the ground

Before I could talk I was humming an old railroad sound

Things didn't get much better when by the age of five

They found me walking into Clarksdale trying to keep my friends alive

No time for celebration there was no known cure

Seems I was born and raised in the wrong killing floor

And my loved ones gathered round see if the experiment had worked

I was misplaced, out of time privileged and worse

Oh, mama please

Don't cry for me

Tears to the river

Tears to be free

Now I see twelve white horses yeah walking in a line

Moving east across the metal bridge on Highway 49

And standing in the shadows of a burnt out motel

The King of Commerce Mississippi waited with his hound from hell, oh

A shiny noon riverboat taking income from the poor

It's floating by the levee in an artificial pool

There's a six mile tailback back on junction 304

A stranger at the crossroads believe I've seen his face before

Oh, don't cry for me

Tears fill the river
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Tears to be free

Oh, I'm sad to be leaving

The sun's going down and I really got to go now

Sad to be leaving

The sun's going down, I really got to go now

Yeah really got to go now

I I gotta go

I've got to move

I've got to move, yeah, ah

Sad to be leaving

Sun's going down, I really got to go now

Sad to be leaving

The sun going down, I really got to go now

Yeah, really got to go now, oh

Sad to be leaving

Sun's going down, I really got to go now

Sad to be leaving

The sun's going down, I really got to go now

Yeah really got to go now, yeah

Oh, gotta go now

Yes I've got, gotta go now

Yeah