Down By The River lyrics

I had just gotten out of the marine corps after 2 years in vietnam and i found i lost my fiance & baby, no place to live and no jobs. I was an electronics & communications engineer and wound up working as a house keeper in a tb sanitarium 1971. There was a personnel building, a 1 room w/ a shared bathroom. It had the most awesome sounding acoustical basement ever! I got a guitar and went down & played whenever i could. One night i got done playing this song and there were people there and they began clapping as i sat there with tears rolling down my cheeks. This one song, even to this day was very prophetic for me. Years later my beautiful wife of 7 years was missing for 5 months. One very bad day, they found her floating in a dirty river in chicago with her throat cut ear to ear. I don't play down by the river very much because it's way too meaningful but i just now played it, i remembered, and i wept.
Tom guzik
("the sounds of guzik")