T.J.'s Last Ride - Mel McDaniel

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

He ferried 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

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

TJ’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 watch him cry

Let him down slow in the ground slow…

Well now here we stand with 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

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