I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by But when I got to the river, so lonesome I wanted to die so long Thought that I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry She's long gone and now I'm lonesome blue I had me a woman, she couldn't be true She made me for my money and she made me blue A man needs a woman that he can lean on But my leaning post is done and left and gone She's long gone and now I'm lonesome blue She told me on Sunday she was checking me out Along about Monday she was nowhere about And here it is Tuesday, ain't had no news I got them gone, but not forgotten blues She's long gone and now I'm lonesome blue I had me a woman, she couldn't be true She made me for my money and she made me blue A man needs a woman that he can lean on But my leaning post is done and left and gone She's long gone and now I'm lonesome blue She told me on Sunday she was checking me out