Dirty River (Catfish Blues)

Dirty River (Catfish Blues) - Chad Elliott and The Redemptions (3:45)

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Songwriter: Chad Elliott
Publishing: BMI
Release Date: August 10, 2018

Lyrics:

Bottle up my poetry
Pawned the ring you gave to me
Got too tired of the same, old song
Oh,dirty river, come take me
Where we’re going I can’t see
But once again I fall into your fold

A thirsty man will walk all the way to the sea
That cool dirty river’s holy water for me
I can’t sink, I can’t swim
Catfish feeling’s back again
Dirty river clean my soul

If you don’t ask, I won’t tell
I won’t risk me catching hell
Just so you can bend me to your will
I would like to remind you
Of a man you onced loved, tried and true
All the holes he left I can’t fill

A diamond in the rough I am not
I’m more like that big ol’ bottom feeder that you caught
I can’t sink, I can’t swim
Catfish feeling’s back again
Dirty river clean my soul

You can lead a man to the kitchen sink
but you can’t make him take a drink
If he don’t wanna help himself
It’s kinda like that thirsty horse
you can lead him straight to the source
But if he's stubborn as a mule, it don’t help

So don’t work too hard when it’s hot outside
That cool dirty river's all you got sometimes
I can’t sink, I can’t swim
Catfish feeling’s back again
Dirty river clean my soul
Oh, dirty river clean my soul