The Boy Down The Road Lyrics - Seals And Crofts

Long long ago in a house up the road 

Lived a maiden so beautiful 

Day after day she looked the same old way 

As the sun shone off her hair of gold 

Someday I would go there and ask for her hand 

Just as soon as I become a man 

In the afternoon she'd sit in the shade 

And wave as I watched from down the road 

Time after time I wished my head to lay 

In her arms and at last she would know 

Then one day a stranger came to call 

And took her far away from down the road 

I watched 'til the dusk from the fields down below 

But in vain for the night began to fall 

Then came the message that summoned me to town 

And my knees gave way to the ground 

They say that this message came with her dying breath 

The very last words she ever spoke 

Give my love to the boy down the road 

And tell him not to cry, for I know