There ain't no more cane on
This brazos
They done ground it all in molasses.


You should have been on the river
In nineteen and four

You could have found a dead man
At every turn row.


You should have been on the river
In nineteen and ten
They were rolling the women like

They were driving the men.

Now captain don't do me like

You done poor shine
You done worked that bully
'Til he been stone blind.


Rise up dead man help me drive
My row

Rise up dead man help me drive
My row.


There's some on the building and
There's some on the farm
And there's some in the graveyard

And there's some going home.

Because there ain't no more cane

On this brazos
They done ground it all in molasses...