Jackson River
from Music, Magic, Mischief, Mayhem by The John Whites
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lyrics
well i see you lost you son
on a river in Jackson
picked the words so wrong
he left you out in the cold grey moonlight
Oh he told me that he's mad
he told me that he's sad, he told me that he's glad that he aain't never coming back
you should have held your tongue
on a river in Jackson
Well I see you lost your love
on the railway in Jordan
You walked and shoulda run
and didn't stop her from saying goodbye /
her train kept chugging on
You were left on the platform
Didn't follow your intuition
Now the smoke stacks in the distance
twiddling your thumbs
on the railroad in Jordan
And she's not likely to come back
she's not likely to retract
not likely to retrace her steps
I heard you lost all that you own
at a casino in Reno
Your luck just didn't show
and all you've earned was drained in the night
You thought you'd make it rich / thought it'd happen quick / thought you'd do it quick
call your ex-wife call her a bitch
but now you're lying next to garbage
All your money blown
at a Casino in Reno
It's so so hard to go back
Oh so hard to go back / words are so hard to retract / so hard with regrets / should have hedged your bets
Oh so hard to retrace your steps / your palms are dripping/filledwith sweat again / now so many regrets / / now your life is filled with regrets
How you wish you held your tongue
On a river in Jackson
on a river in Jackson
picked the words so wrong
he left you out in the cold grey moonlight
Oh he told me that he's mad
he told me that he's sad, he told me that he's glad that he aain't never coming back
you should have held your tongue
on a river in Jackson
Well I see you lost your love
on the railway in Jordan
You walked and shoulda run
and didn't stop her from saying goodbye /
her train kept chugging on
You were left on the platform
Didn't follow your intuition
Now the smoke stacks in the distance
twiddling your thumbs
on the railroad in Jordan
And she's not likely to come back
she's not likely to retract
not likely to retrace her steps
I heard you lost all that you own
at a casino in Reno
Your luck just didn't show
and all you've earned was drained in the night
You thought you'd make it rich / thought it'd happen quick / thought you'd do it quick
call your ex-wife call her a bitch
but now you're lying next to garbage
All your money blown
at a Casino in Reno
It's so so hard to go back
Oh so hard to go back / words are so hard to retract / so hard with regrets / should have hedged your bets
Oh so hard to retrace your steps / your palms are dripping/filledwith sweat again / now so many regrets / / now your life is filled with regrets
How you wish you held your tongue
On a river in Jackson
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from Music, Magic, Mischief, Mayhem,
released September 29, 2017
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A hurricane of restless songwriting energy, John White is quietly one of America’s best and most prolific songwriters and the namesake of the ever-amorphous Reno rock band The John Whites.
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