Red River

(Album: The Closer You Get... - 1983)

I remember camping all night
Down by the river's edge
Skinny dipping in the bright moonlight
Diving off a ledge
Skipping rocks across the water
Fishing on an old trout line
Gigging frogs 'til the early morning
Smoking dried crossvine.

Take me back down where the Red River rolls
Send me back to Louisianne
Take me back down where the white water flows
To the Cajun promised land
Give me my line and my old pirogue
Get me back as fast as you can
Take me back home where the Red River rolls
Take me back home where the Red River rolls.

Floating down the river on a patched up inner tube
Eating dinner on the ground
Made of fresh caught catfish stew
I layed awake at night
When I hear a wildcat scream
Telling tales by campfire light
About the girls in our dreams.

Take me back home where the Red River rolls
Send me back to Louisianne
Take me back down where the white water flows
To the Cajun promised land
Give me my line and my old pirogue
Get me back as fast as you can
Take me back home where the Red River rolls.
Take me back home where the Red River rolls.

Take me back home where the Red River rolls
Send me back to Louisianne
Take me back down where the white water flows
To the Cajun promised land
Give me my line and my old pirogue
Get me back as fast as you can
Take me back home where the Red River rolls.
Take me back home where the Red River rolls.