"River, Stay 'Way from My Door" — Dixon and Woods' 1931 flood metaphor.
Writer(s): woods/dixon
You keep goin' your way - i'll keep goin' my way (i'll keep goin' my way, you keep rollin' your way)
River, stay 'way from the door
I just got (me) a cabin - you don't need my (you'll never need that) cabin
River, stay 'way from the door
Don't (you) come up any higher - i'm so all alone
Leave the bed and the fire - that is all i own (- and you can have that phone)
I ain't breakin' your heart - don't (you) start breakin' my heart
River, stay 'way from the door
(stay 'way, get 'way, roll 'way, stay 'way)
(you dirty, old, muddy river, you)
(river, stay 'way from the door)
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- Written by Mort Dixon and Harry Woods in 1931. The river threatening to flood as a metaphor for the blues — the sorrow held back by a levee of will. Sinatra connecting to the pre-Songbook tradition of using natural disaster as emotional image.