Hymn To Me - Brinsley Schwarz

I was born by the river

Left my home at the age of ten

I made a promise

Ain’t never gonna go back home again

And if the cops are gonna get me

I may be president by then

I was saved from drowning

When I fell into the stream of life

It was my woman

Had no plans to make her my wife

And as the change is getting closer

The cold wind cuts me like a knife

Oh and yeah suppose you think that I’m a fool

I have not come to excuse myself

My jugs in pieces

And now I’ve spilled my wine

Spent my life in conversation

With a man I saw on the edge of town

He pointed one way

I couldn’t stay up so I had to sit down

And now the irons are in the fire

And I ain’t never heard that sound