Travelling Riverside Blues
Nigel Watson Peter Green Lyrics

The first verse of Nigel Watson's song "Traveling Riverside Blues" suggests that if a woman's man is getting too personal with her, she should come back to Friars Point (a blues-famous location in Mississippi) and spend the night hopping in the barrelhouse. This line can be interpreted as a suggestion to escape from the controlling and suffocating man and have some fun at Friars Point. The second verse explains that the singer has women all along the Mississippi River, but his Friars Point rider is the one who owns his soul. Here, the term "rider" can be interpreted as a woman or a horse.

The third verse describes a woman with golden teeth who has a mortgage on the singer's body and a lien on his soul. The reference to gold teeth suggests that the woman is financially well-off, and the singer being mortgaged to her can be interpreted as a debt that the singer owes to her. The fourth verse is about the singer going to Rosedale with his rider, suggesting that they can still have fun and hop in the barrelhouse on the riverside. The last verse is an innuendo about the physical pleasures the singer enjoys with his woman.

Overall, the song is about a man's wandering lifestyle and his relationships with women. It can be seen as a commentary on the inequalities and power dynamics in heterosexual relationships, where women are often subjected to control and debts by men.