Crossing Muddy Waters lyrics

Song information

Artist: John Hiatt
Album: Crossing Muddy Waters

Lyrics

My baby's gone and I don't know why
She let out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
She left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
And faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks on an old mule cart
She took a flatboat across the shallow

Chorus:
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 hair black as a raven
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she'd been saving

Chorus

Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and a river of song
I can hear my true love moaning
Crying for a baby child
Oh crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
To take her from her loved ones

Chorus twice