St. Gabriel

All the sad songs about leaving

None about coming home

I've been down, I've been down in St. Gabriel

With nowhere to go

The sun sets in St. Gabriel

A fiery red

In the field all around

They're brown and dead in St. Gabriel

St. Gabriel

They say I killed a man

That threatened my life

But I went to prison

Because I was his wife

Now I had stood it

As long as I could

For I went down, I went down to St. Gabriel

For what I had to do, St. Gabriel

St. Gabriel

It's a hopeless life

And it's a crying shame

It was me or him

And I took the blame

You can feel the river

Through the walls

It shakes the levee

It shakes us all in St. Gabriel

St. Gabriel

Now they say I was right

And I'm free to go

So I'm standing out here

By the side of the road

All the sad songs about leaving

There's none about coming home

Oh, I've been down, I've been down in St. Gabriel

I got nowhere to go, St. Gabriel

St. Gabriel

St. Gabriel