Mill Creek Lyrics - Singles - Darden Smith

I used to go down to the Mill Creek 

When I was only nine or ten 

I'd run trot lines in the muddy water 

I'd watch the leaves riding the wind 

It was there I smoked my first Marlboro 

It was there I kissed Laurie Jones 

I'd lie in the tall grass for hours 

I'd walk in the shallows, I'd skim those stones 

And one day I was a climbing in the railroad trestle 

I heard the sound of a coming train 

Man, it was on me like a rolling thunder 

Lit a fear inside I can't explain 

Sent me running, sent me screaming 

Like a wild man through the tall grass 

Trying to make it back home 

And it was then I ran into that stranger 

With his suitcase and his walking cane 

He put his hand on my little shoulder 

And since that day, I ain't been the same 

Sends me running, sends me screaming 

Down a freeway, down a runway 

Trying to make it back home 

And here I stand, in this darkened hallway 

My baby's sleeping, dreaming soft and low 

I feel his hand on my shoulder 

Like that day, down by the Mill Creek, long ago