High and dry in the long hot day
Lost and lonely in every way
Got the flats all around me, sky up above

Yes, I need a little water of love

I've been too long lonely and my heart feels pain

Crying out for some soothing rain
I believe I have taken enough
Yes, I need a little water of love


CHORUS
Water of love deep in the ground

But there ain't no water here to be found
Some day baby, when the river runs free
It's gonna carry that water of love to me


There's a bird up in a tree sitting up high
Just a-waiting for me to die

If I don't get some water soon
I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon


REPEAT CHORUS

Once I had a woman I could call my own

Once I had a woman now my woman, she gone
Once there was a river now there's a stone
You know it's evil when you're living alone


REPEAT CHORUS TWICE