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JOHN HIATT lyrics : "Crossing Muddy Waters"

My baby's gone and I don't know why
she let out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
and faster than the sun rose

Down to the banks in an old mule car
she took a flatboat across the shallow


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Left me in my tears to drown
she left a baby daughter

Now the water's wide and deep and brown
she's crossing muddy waters


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


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Baby's crying and the daylight's gone

that big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning

Crying for her baby child
or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild

to take her from her loved ones

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