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Artist: Burning Spear
Canonical path: /burning-spear/down-by-the-riverside
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Down By The Riverside
Read Down By The Riverside lyrics by Burning Spear on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Down By The Riverside
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Don't break this heart
Don't break this heart
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Oh I love a girl
All I know I love a girl
I love her so,
I really, really ......
She could be from Africa
She could be from America
She could be from Jamaica
All I know I love a girl.
Oh I love a girl
I love her so,
I really, I really care
Don't break this heart that love you
Don't break this heart that love you
And neither tear it apart
I love you, oh yes, it's true
I will hold you tight tonight
Have something real nice to say,
Have something real nice to say,
We will hold hands in hands
We will sing, I tell you, happy songs.
We will be, I tel you, side by side
/:Down by the riverside
Down the beautiful riverside
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Burning Spear performs "Down By The Riverside", and this lyric page sits inside the Burning Spear catalog on LyroVerse.
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