Water Street

©1979 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on Water Street

Title track of my first LP. People love this, somehow it's more fun to hear than it is to sing, so I forget about it until someone asks again.

"Water Street" ran off the edge of Middlebury, Vermont, where I spent summers from age 7-12 as my mother was studying French. "Water Street" looked like it led into an enchanted, beautiful world. But I never did go there, until I was grown up and of course I shouldn't have gone at all. My father is not, in fact, an alcoholic, although lately he does like the occasional dram. Some of my songs are autobiographical, and more of them aren't.

Chorus:
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields

It's a pleasant street to walk by
Starts at the edge of the edge of town
It's a pleasant street to walk by
The kind of street I don't walk down

Chorus

Whiskey dogs my father's footstep
Hot guilt blinds my mother's eye
I am weak and I am lonely
I have only one long try

Chorus

I met a woman at the edge of Water Street
She loved me as I loved her
We made love in the brush by Water Street
We made love, and love we were
Come along and walk down Water Street
I've a mind to see and learn
If you won't walk with me down Water Street
I will nevermore return
There is a light at the end of Water Street
Each remembered, none forgot
We are called from the end of Water Street
Gather here, and suffer not

Chorus