Preacher pulled up to the house
said Daddy’d passed away
Mama ran to the backyard
where us children used to play
The swing set he had built us
had lasted many years
Mama held it tightly
Then slowly came the tears
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
(repeat)
I had just returned from
a stint on foreign shore
Where death was all around me
it was a soldier’s norm
But nothin’ could prepare me
for coming home that year
So I quit the service, I bought a boat
I docked in a Rockport pier
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
(repeat)
Those places in my memories
they slowly fade away
Sometimes the family visits me
when I drift back in the bay
Their faces all surround me
but I don’t have much to say
I finally got married
took Jenny as my bride
We moved into the old house
where mama had died
Now I sit and watch our children
as they play in the backyard
Where daddy built our swing set
and mama cried so hard
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
Well, new places and new memories are building every day
But sometimes I still find myself staring at the bay
Then mama brings me back and we’ll watch those children play
At night the Gulf breeze calls me
to shake my blues away
But mama and the children
are all I need today
We’re gonna throw a party
in that old backyard
Where daddy built our swing set
and mama cried so hard
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
Hold me Down
You said I was your lover, you said there was no other
Still you’re gone, gone, gone
Til death do us part, from the bottom of your heart
But yer gone, gone, gone
I thought you was my woman, then you started roamin’
I should have known all along
You said I was your lover, you said there was no other
Still you’re gone, gone, gone
You said you’d always be there, but I don’t see you anywhere
But, no yer gone, gone, gone
I just found a note, said that’s all she wrote
And you’re gone, gone, gone
I thought you was my woman, then you started roamin’
I should have known all along
You said I was your lover, you said there was no other
Still you’re gone, gone, gone
You said I was your lover, you said there was no other
Still you’re gone, gone, gone
Til death do us part, from the bottom of your heart
But, yer gone, gone, gone
I thought you was my woman, then you started roamin’
I should have known all along
You said I was your lover, you said there was no other
Still you’re gone, gone, gone
Well, you’re gone, gone gone
Yeah, you're gone, gone, gone