Somewhere Down The Crazy River

Album: Robbie Robertson (1987)
Charted: 15
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  • Yeah, I can see it now
    The distant red neon shivered in the heat
    I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land
    You know, where people play games with the night
    God, it was too hot to sleep

    I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee
    All of a sudden, I could hear somebody whistling from right behind me
    I turned around, and she said
    "Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?"
    I said, "Uh, I don't know, the wind just kinda pushed me this way"
    She said, "Hang the rich"

    Catch the blue train
    Places never been before
    Look for me
    Somewhere down the crazy river
    (Somewhere down the crazy river)
    Ooh, catch the blue train
    All the way to Kokomo
    You can find me
    Somewhere down the crazy river
    (Somewhere down the crazy river)

    Take a picture of this
    The fields are empty, abandoned '59 Chevy
    Laying in the back seat listening to Little Willie John
    Yeah, that's when time stood still
    You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X
    And let her read my mind
    She said, "That voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me"

    I'm a man with a clear destination
    I'm a man with a broad imagination
    You fog the mind, you stir the soul
    I can't find no control

    Catch the blue train
    Places never been before
    Look for me
    Somewhere down the crazy river
    (Somewhere down the crazy river)
    Ooh, catch the blue train
    All the way to Kokomo
    You can find me
    Somewhere down the crazy river
    (Somewhere down the crazy river)

    Wait, did you hear that?
    Oh, this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me
    She said, "There's one thing you gotta learn
    Is not to be afraid of it"
    I said, "No, I like it, I like it, it's good"
    She said, "You like it now
    But you'll learn to love it later"

    I been spellbound
    Falling in trances
    I been spellbound
    Falling in trances
    You give me the shivers
    Chills and fever
    You give me the shivers
    You give me the shivers
    I been spellbound
    I been spellbound
    I been spellbound
    (Somewhere down the crazy river)
    Somewhere down the crazy river Writer/s: Robbie Robertson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Frank Van Dijk from The NetherlandsCurious B: The singer is Sam Llanas. American singer, acoustic guitarist, and songwriter in several rock and roots rock bands active from the 1980s to the 2000s, including BoDeans and Absinthe.
  • Curious B from Vancouver, BcI love Robbie Robertson's music, especially "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and I was wondering, who was the young man who sang the line, "somewhere down the crazy river"?
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