Everybody's down at the boondocks
Watchin' the river roll on
Tryin' to bring back yesterday
But, oh, yesterday's gone
A young man threw his bottle away
He watched it float out to sea
Then he turned and said to me
"Things ain't the way they used to be"
Everybody's down at the boondocks
Watchin' the river roll on
Tryin' to bring back yesterday
But, oh, yesterday's gone
A young girl sittin' all alone
Cryin' in both her hands
"He said he loved me yesterday
Today I don't understand"
Everybody's down at the boondocks
Watchin' the river roll on
Tryin' to bring back yesterday
But, oh, yesterday's gone
Oh, yesterday's gone
Oh, yesterday's gone
Oh, yesterday's gone