Floyd Lee Band Floyd Lee & His Mean Blues Band - Down In Lamar

The house where she used to live
Lamar Mississippi

The house where she used to live
It ain’t there no more
Been tore down a long time
Can’t go back to what it was before

She use to come to her window
And slowly pull up the blind
Then she’d take in the midnight air
The years can’t erase this from my mind

She would play that song on her record machine
The sound would fill up in the night
I would listen and watch her dance ‘til dawn
And I see her with my eyes closed tight

Well, her father was an evil man
Came home drunk and killed her in her bed
He threw her body down in the river there
Then he hung himself dead

I was too young then and it’s too late now
That’s just the way things are
But with that girl dead and gone
There’s no reason to go back to Lamar…

Mississippi

Well, the house where she used to live
It ain’t there no more
You know they tore it down, down, down
Years ago

I can't go by the river
You know it got too deep
I was just a young boy then
Scared to go to sleep

The house where she used to live
Mmm it just ain't there no more
You know that down in Lamar Mississippi
I just can't go back there no more

Mmm I'd rather live in Clarksdale
Or Holly Spring
I ain't goin' back to Lamar
It don't mean a thing

Owww, somebody talk to me
Can't go back there no more
Can't go back there, baby
Just can't go back there no more

I was born in Lamar Mississippi
My name is Floyd Lee
I can't go back to what was before
It ain't what it used to be

Ain't what it used to be
Mmmm

Written by:
JOEL POLUCK

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