“Let’s All Go Down to the River” is a country song written by Earl Montgomery and Sue Richards. It was introduced as a duet by Jody Miller and Johnny Paycheck, released as a single in 1972, when it became a country chart hit.
The song carries a gospel flavor familiar in country music — the river as a place of baptism, renewal, and redemption, and the invitation to go down to the water together. That blend of a secular country duet with sacred imagery was a comfortable one in the early-1970s Nashville sound.
The song passed into the wider country and bluegrass repertoire.
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