Goodnight Irene - John Martyn

Goodnight Irene

God knows, I’ll love her till the stream runs dry

But she has turned her back on me

I will run up the river and say goodbye, goodbye

Sometimes I live in the country

Sometimes I live

Sometimes I live in the town

Sometimes I run down the river and jump in

Sometimes I take a foolish notion

To jump in the deep blue ocean

Goodnight Irene, goodnight

I’m going to get you one time in my dreams

Get you out of my dreams

But if I ever turn her beautiful back on me

I’m going jump in the ocean with a bowl of morphine

And try to die

Irene, goodnight

Goodnight Irene