Lyrics Lee Denson aka Jesse James - Mississippi Bridge

When I was a boy I played on a bluff
Spotted wide mighty river below
And every time I looked up I'd see a big bridge
Lookin down I'd see the steam boats

Being just a kid I was to scared to tell
The things I sawfrom the bluff
One foggy morning there be a big splash
But nobody ever came up

[Chous]
It's a mighty long ways from the top to the bottom
Over river where the water runs cold
So you'd better not jump from the Mississippi bridge
Or you won't come back nomore
Nomore! Or you won't come back anymore

When I was a boy no I didn't know
Why woe(?) would come and go
Of the top of that high windy tower of steel
To the angry currents below

[Chorus]

Now when I'm a man I do understand
This life is full of woe
But each and everybody got a suffer to share
No matter where they go

[Chorus]