[Intro]

Well I'll ride on down this river

With a man who stabbed me in the back

But he don't know I know what he's done to me

And we'll ride on down this river

He ain't the only one who knows how to act

I can do it too and you best believe

[Verse 1]

Riding down this river, all these things that I remember

He don't know a thing, kinda like me when I asked for him to mentor:

"Me and my girl are having problems, I don't know what's going on

Can you talk to her man? And find out where things went wrong?

I've done everything I can to try to make this girl content

I even bought the perfume she wanted that has the special scent

The one that smells like mint, I even got her lipstick too

Her favorite shade of blue, dude, what do I gotta do?"

He said:

"I got you bro, don't you worry, I'm your best pal

I'd take a bullet for you, man I hope you work things out

But for now I gotta go, I'll make sure to give her a call

Let's hang out later bro and we can talk about it all"

So a few hours passed and we met up outside

He gave me a hug and laughed and said she was just fine

But he turned around, and there was blue on his neck

And he smelled like mints, and now he's going in the ground

[Chorus]

Well I'll ride on down this river

With a man who stabbed me in the back

But he don't know I know what he's done to me

And we'll ride on down this river

He ain't the only one who knows how to act

I can do it too and you best believe

[Verse 2]

So I looked him in his soul, and I knew he had to go

I said hey man the fish are biting, go grab some poles

I'll get mine out the camper, and then I'll meet you on the boat

I grabbed my gun from the mattress and tucked it to my side to stow

So we head on down the river to his favorite fishing hole

The one he showed me months ago, the one that nobody knows

He really likes to keep secrets, well I've got one of my own

Two of us are on this boat, but only one's going home

So I shut off the motor and turned to my friend and I said:

"I've got a secret man, can you keep it until the very end?"

He said: "I got you man, what kind of secrets are on your mind?"

I said: "I wanna shoot you dead for messing with my future wife"

And he tried to deny, but I reached to my side

And grabbed my nine and pulled back the slide

I aimed it high, right between his eyes

And said: "Two can keep a secret, but one of them has to die"

[Chorus]

So I'll ride on down this river

With a man who stabbed me in the back

But he don't know I know what he's done to me

And we'll ride on down this river

He ain't the only one who knows how to act

I can do it too and you best believe