Timothy Demonbreun was one of the earliest fur traders to settle in what would become Nashville. During the 1760s, he had various places of residence, including a house on top of an Indian mound and a cave on the Cumberland River. He managed two wives, one back home in Illinois and one he kept in Nashville. When his wife from Illinois came to the growing town, he traded the other wife off to his best friend to keep her close. His tavern was on Summer Street, now renamed Fifth Avenue.
Get back to the rivers that haunt you
get back they’re the waters that want you
get back to the troubles that caught you
get back to the rivers that haunt you
The names they change but the streets are the same
a token at the tavern and a barrel to blame
for the way I’ll feel when the morning comes
try to wash it away but my heart is still drunk
I guess you never forget never forget the love you lost
the one who makes you drink and the only one who could make you
Get back to the rivers that haunt you
get back they’re the waters that want you
get back to the troubles that caught you
get back to the rivers that haunt you
I gave away what I can’t get back I never really knew what I had
until I wronged my only right and now it’s
peace to the whiskey and peace to the pipe
and nobody knows where I’m sleeping tonight
yeah nobody knows nobody knows where I’m sleeping tonight
That night we fell into the sky
I counted on the light as it moved across your face
in time on Summer Street I’ll find
the ghosts that we designed in another place
Get back to the rivers that haunt you
get back they’re the waters that want you
get back to the troubles that caught you
get back to the rivers that haunt you
I gotta live in this town too
