where i was born was called the bad side of the town but the people knew the difference between a smile and a frown and it didn t cost a penny to shake a hand or two and if you help to make it thru the dark i would do the same thing to you bad side of town old soldiers never like down got a penny in the pocket for a bottle of brown and the women talk a giggling the mothers everyone and the cildren play with the children and the children always had fun chorus i can hear the river flow inside of everyone in spite of everyone the tide is on the turn and the bad side of town was named by nameless men do they knew themselves as faces never as friends and the bad side of town for sure it got to pull down and the people who lives to people never put their faces down i can hear the river flow inside of everyone in spite of everyone the tide is on the turn i can hear the river flow inside of everyone in spite of everyone the tide is on the turn