Written, Recorded and Performed by Jeff Stachyra with The Stoutmen (Roy Bartrum, Tim Lynch, Sean Walsh) / Backing Vocals
The Island cluster where too many would “sink to rise no more”.
Paddy’s Hen and Chickens
80 acres of mud and muck
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
A riverboat man needs lady luck
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
South of St. Louie and West of Tennessee
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Islands forty-one, two and three
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Going Down, Down, Down, Down, Down
Down Down Down – She’s a going down
Mound City, Arkansas
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
That April morn’ the sight she saw
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Roasted skin and charred bones
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Under farmer’s field with no headstones
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Going Down, Down, Down, Down, Down
Down Down Down – She’s a going down
A superstructure that steamer was
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
But super is what super does
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Spirits lie buried on the shore
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
This site she sank to rise no more
(Paddy’s Hen and Chickens)
Going Down, Down, Down, Down, Down
Down Down Down – She’s a going down
