"Moody River" lyrics
Doc Watson & Richard Watson Lyrics
Last Saturday evening
I came to the old oak tree
It stands beside the river
Where you were to meet me
On the ground, your glove, I found
With a note addressed to me
And it read, "Dear Love, I've done you wrong
Now I must set you free"
Moody River, more deadly
Than the vainest knife
Moody River, your muddy water
Took my baby's life
I looked into your muddy waters
And what did I see
I saw a lonely, lonely man
Just looking back at me
Tears were in his eyes
And a prayer on his lips
And with the glove of his lost love
There at his fingertips
Moody River, more deadly
Than the vainest knife
Moody River, your muddy waters
Took my baby's life
Moody River, your muddy water
Took my baby's life
I came to the old oak tree
It stands beside the river
Where you were to meet me
On the ground, your glove, I found
With a note addressed to me
And it read, "Dear Love, I've done you wrong
Now I must set you free"
Moody River, more deadly
Than the vainest knife
Moody River, your muddy water
Took my baby's life
I looked into your muddy waters
And what did I see
I saw a lonely, lonely man
Just looking back at me
Tears were in his eyes
And a prayer on his lips
And with the glove of his lost love
There at his fingertips
Moody River, more deadly
Than the vainest knife
Moody River, your muddy waters
Took my baby's life
Moody River, your muddy water
Took my baby's life
Writer(s): Gary Daniel Bruce
