"Delta Queen" lyrics

Everyone remembered, seeing that bride and groom
It was 1929, they were on their honeymoon
A steamboat horn was blowing as they waved goodbye to shore
No one knows what happened next when he closed that cabin door

But they showed up for dinner, in the grand ballroom that night
Everyone could tell, they've been in a fight
She was still wearing that diamond ring with the sapphires on the side
With a rip in her dress, and her hair all a mess, the truth is hard to find

'Cause they couldn't find one drop of blood
As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud
From hell on earth, down to New Orleans
It was way too late to turn around now
They searched every way from stern to bow
When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen
Delta Queen

The moon lit up the water, a chill was in the air
When they took that groom back to his room and tied him to a chair
The witness said she saw him holding her right by the rail
Was she napping? Was she crying? Were they kissing? Were they fighting? Well, you just couldn't tell

And they couldn't find one drop of blood
As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud
From hell on earth, down to New Orleans
It was way too late to turn around now
They searched every way from stern to bow
When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen
Delta Queen

They never found her body, they threw him in the pen
Well at a pawn shop in Saint Louis, a young couple walked in
The girl was looking through the glass at all those diamonds rings
And nobody knows that the one she chose would set that prisoner free

That's why they couldn't find one drop of blood
As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud
From hell on earth, down to New Orleans
It was way too late to turn around now
They searched every way from stern to bow
When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen

On the Delta Queen
Delta Queen