Gonna Take a Lot of River

I ain't gonna ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway

I ain't going nowhere feeling the way I do

Because my baby's long gone and nothing's going my way

I'm gonna let this muddy water just wash away my blues

It's gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long day

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away

Well, I wish I was tug boat pushing and pulling them barges along

Moving on the water with a heart made of iron and steel

There wouldn't be no women who could ever take my loving and do me wrong

I could work all day with nothing in the world to feel

It's gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long day

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away

Is she in New Orleans?

Is she a cajun queen?

I wonder what she's doing now

But if I know her she's got rings and furs

Struggling along somehow

(Struggling along somehow)

It's gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long day

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away

It's gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long day

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away

It's gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away