When I was a boy

Four house’s down from me

Was a family with an only child

She was the only girl

In this whole world that

could make me smile

Down the road

I made up reason’s to go

Down the road

Somewhere inside of me

There was somethin’

she took a likin’ to

Well I asked her to marry me

She said she really wanted to

Down the road

See what life’s gonna hold

Down the road

Her momma want’s to know

am I washed in the blood

or just in the water

Her daddy want’s to know

If I make enough to

take his daughter

Down the road

Before he can let her go

Down the road

Now down the

street from here

There’s an engineer

with an only son

And our baby girl

Say’s she believes that

he is the only one

Down the road

Her momma want’s to know

Is he washed in the blood

or just in the water

And I wanna know

That he make’s enough

to take my daughter

Down the road

When it come’s time to go

Down the road

Down the road

You know I wanna help her go

Down the road

Down down down that road

Down down down that road