Lyrics Billy Joe Shaver – Down The Road By The Way

Well, it’s down the road and up the hill and just around the bend
Pick ’em and put ’em down and pick ’em up again
And it sets me into wonderin’ what it’s really all about
Fightin’ for the things we know we’ll always be without

Down the road by the way
Where the laughin’ waters play
‘Cross the ribbon-wavin’ sand
We go walkin’ hand in hand

Nothin’ old and nothin’ new
Nothin’ special there to do
In those good old yesterdays
Down the road by the way

Well, it’s light and lovely Brenda comin’ cool across the waves
Floatin’ over rows she helped me hoe in yesterdays
And it’s me whose thirsty now for all that sweet milk gone to waste
Somewhere on the road of no returnin’ yesterdays

Well, it’s down the road and up the hill and just about the bend
Pick ’em and put ’em down and pick ’em up again
And it sets me into wonderin’ what it’s really all about
Fightin’ for the things we know we’ll always be without