(Lyrics by James Seals; music by James Seals & Dash Crofts, 1971)
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Long long ago in a house up the road
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Lived a maiden so beautiful.
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Day after day she looked the same old way
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As the sun shone off her hair of gold.
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Someday I would go there and ask for her hand
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Just as soon as I become a man.
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In the afternoon she'd sit in the shade
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And wave as I watched from down the road.
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Time after time I wished my head to lay
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In her arms and at last she would know.
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Then one day a stranger came to call
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And took her far away from down the road.
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I watched 'til the dusk from the fields down below,
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But in vain for the night began to fall.
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Then came the message that summoned me to town,
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And my knees gave way to the ground.
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Spoken: They say that this message came with her dying breath,
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The very last words she ever spoke:
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Give my love to the boy down the road,
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And tell him not to cry, for I know.
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The Boy Down The Road
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| Seals & Crofts |
