Runaway Boy Lyrics - Never Die Young - James Taylor

Fetch down the fiddle, rosin up the bow 

Don't play me nothing on the radio 

Don't make me remember the alamo 

I'm feeling like a little bit of cotton eyed joe 

No ragin' cajun crawfish stew 

Fat batter come a lou mamma lou 

Boy howdy and howdy damn do 

Something like fine setting eyes on you 

Let me come down, I won't never go back up again 

Oh, hold me down 

Let me come home, I won't never go away no more 

Oh let me come down 

In a younger day back in tennessee 

The muddy mississippi used to call to me 

Float on a river and set yourself free 

Run from the farm and the family tree 

Run from the runaway boy 

So I've been all the places that I ever want to be 

I've seen all the people that I ever want to see 

I'm sick and tired of being lonely and free 

I'm ready today for what's waiting on me 

I'm gonna give up believing I was born to run 

And stop acting like a man that gets shot from a gun 

I'm putting down roots, I want to soak up sun 

And stay right here until my days are done 

Let me back down, I will never go up again 

Hold me down, tie me on down 

Let me go home, I will never go away no more 

Oh let me come home 

Oh let me go down