meet me by the river when the sun s going down make a little fire pass a bottle round aint no path so follow all the sounds oh ill see you down there you could tell two friends and they could tell five well all be here when jack and jim arrive and itll be just us and the trees and a little fresh air and when the whiskeys all gone and the night grows old there s no more sense in the stories told we can laugh down the path with smoke in our clothes and find a little peace down there so maybe ill see you down there well all get together for a while so maybe ill see you down there everyone together for a while oh ill see you there oh ill see you there meet me in the city where the street s run down gather up a crowd in an empty town it s where the people speed up and the time slows down oh ill see you down there sally pours a drink and the glasses raise high we wrote on the wall in a crooked line the same song plays that we heard so many times and now well hear it down there so maybe ill see you down there well all get together for a while so maybe ill see you down there everyone together for a while oh ill see you there oh ill see you there oh maybe ill see you down there well all get together for a while oh maybe ill see you down there everyone together for a while oh ill see you there oh ill see you there oh ill see you there oh ill see you there