Last saturday evening

I came to the old oaktree

It stands beside the river

Where you would a-meet me



On the ground your glove I found

With a note adressed to me

And it read "Dear love, I've done you wrong,

Now I must set you free"



Moody river, more deadly

Than the vainest knife

Moody river, your muddy waters

Took my baby's life



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Looked into your muddy water

And what did I see

I saw a lonely lonely man

Just lookin' back at me



Tears in his eyes

And a prayer on his lips

And with the glove of his lost love

There at his finger tips



Moody river, more deadly

Than the vainest knife

Moody river, your muddy waters

Took my baby's life

Moody river, your muddy waters

Took my baby's life