Roger Miller - T.J.'s Last Ride lyrics

Saturday in the town, as we buried TJ Brown
Good man
Spent his life on the K Roll ferry line
He was just a man, nothing grand, just a man
But, I never heard him treat no-one unkind

Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, while I dry my eyes
Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, it's old TJ's last ride

He feried model A's to the Cape Cherado shore
Way before my poppa ever had a son
When I was eight or nine I
Would sit by his back porch
And he would tell me stories from
Back in World War one

Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, while I dry my eyes
Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, it's old TJ's last ride

T, J's wife passed on, it was back in '61
Seems like yesterday, my my how time does fly
Still I would drop by and
We'd sit and reminisce
And I'd stare across the river so
As not to wath him cry

Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, while I dry my eyes
Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, it's old TJ's last ride

Well now here we standwith
Our memories and prayers
Mourning and crying down to
The youngest child
And all that's gathered here
Will remember TJ Brown
He will miss his river and
We'll miss his old smile

Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, while I dry my eyes
Let him down slow, in the ground slow
Let him down slow, it's old TJ's last ride

So let him down slow