All the sad songs about leaving   Not about coming home   I've been down in St. Gabriel   Nowhere to go.      The sun sets in St. Gabriel   Fiery red   And the fields all around   Are brown and dead.   In St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel      They said I killed a man   That threatened my life   But I went to prison   Because I was his wife.      And I had stood it   As long as I could   Oh, I went down   I went down to St. Gabriel   What I had to do.      Oh, St. Gabriel   St. Gabriel      It's a hopeless life   And it's a crying shame.   It was me or him   And I took the blame.      You can feel the rythmn   Through the walls   It shakes the leevee   It shakes us all.      In St. Gabriel   St. Gabriel.      Now they say I'm right   And I'm free to go.   So I'm standing out here   by the side of the road.   All the sad songs about leaving   Not about coming home   Oh, I've been down, down in St. Gabriel   With nowhere, nowhere to go.      In St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel, St. Gabriel.