Standard (EADGBE)
Verse 1
When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to Southeast Missouri, where my parents where born
There's a backards old town thats oftn remembered
So many times at my memry's reward
Chorus
Daddy wont you take me back to old Shannon County
Down by the Current River where paradise lays
Sorry my son, but your too late in askin'
The government has already took it away
(Fiddle/Harmonica Solo)
Verse 2
Sometimes we'll travel right down the Current River
To the old Bailey Ferry down at PowderMill Bridge
Where if you took the time to stop and to listen
You could hear the dogs runnin' up high on the ridge
Chorus and solo
Verse 3
The govenment came and they took all our houses
They took all our homes and they took all our land
Now their gone and the land is forsaken
They wrote it all down as the progress of man
No Chorus, Verse 4
When I die let my ashes float down the Current River
Let my soul roll right up to Frank Roberts Land
I'll be half way to heaven with paradise a'waitin'
Five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus then solo to fade