Crossing Muddy Waters
John Hiatt

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Baby's gone and I don't know why
She headed out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
She left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
Faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule cart
She took a flat boat 'cross the shallows

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Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the river'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 
hair black eyes of raven 
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 
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    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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