Walking Into Clarksdale Lyrics - Page & Plant

When I was born I was running as my feet hit the ground 

Before I could talk I was humming an old railroad sound 

Things didn't get much better when by the age of five 

They found me walking into Clarksdale trying to keep my friends alive 

No time for celebration there was no known cure 

Seems I was born and raised in the wrong killing floor 

And my loved ones gathered round see if the experiment had worked 

I was misplaced, out of time privileged and worse 

Oh, mama please 

Don't cry for me 

Tears to the river 

Tears to be free 

Now I see twelve white horses yeah walking in a line 

Moving east across the metal bridge on Highway 49 

And standing in the shadows of a burnt out motel 

The King of Commerce Mississippi waited with his hound from hell, oh 

A shiny noon riverboat taking income from the poor 

It's floating by the levee in an artificial pool 

There's a six mile tailback back on junction 304 

A stranger at the crossroads believe I've seen his face before 

Oh, don't cry for me 

Tears fill the river 

Tears to be free 

Oh, I'm sad to be leaving 

The sun's going down and I really got to go now 

Sad to be leaving 

The sun's going down, I really got to go now 

Yeah really got to go now 

I I gotta go 

I've got to move 

I've got to move, yeah, ah 

Sad to be leaving 

Sun's going down, I really got to go now 

Sad to be leaving 

The sun going down, I really got to go now 

Yeah, really got to go now, oh 

Sad to be leaving 

Sun's going down, I really got to go now 

Sad to be leaving 

The sun's going down, I really got to go now 

Yeah really got to go now, yeah 

Oh, gotta go now 

Yes I've got, gotta go now 

Yeah