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Crossing Muddy Waters

I'm With Her

Traditional Folk

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Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan - Crossing Muddy Waters

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Listen to Sarah Jarosz Essentials featuring I'm With Her

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

I'm With Her

Performer

Aoife O'Donovan

Aoife O'Donovan

Acoustic Guitar

Sarah Jarosz

Banjo

Sara Watkins

Fiddle

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

John Hiatt

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Aoife O'Donovan

Aoife O'Donovan

Producer

Sarah Jarosz

Producer

Sara Watkins

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Baby's gone and I don't know why

She lit out this morning

Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

She left me without warning

Sooner than the dogs could bark

Faster than the sun rose

Down to the banks in an old mule car

She took a flatboat 'cross the shallows

[Verse 2]

Left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river is wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

[Verse 3]

Tobacco standing in the fields

Be rotten come November

And a bitter heart will not reveal

A spring that love remembers

When that sweet brown girl of mine

Her black eyes are ravens

We broke the bread and drank the wine

From a jug that she'd been saving

[Verse 4]

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river is wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

[Verse 5]

Baby's crying and the daylight's gone

That big oak tree is groaning

In a rush of wind and a river of song

I can hear my true love moaning

Crying for her baby child

And crying for her husband

And crying for that river wild

To take her from her loved ones

[Verse 6]

Left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river is wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Now the river is wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Written by: John Hiatt

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