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 on an old mule cart She took a flat boat 'cross the shallows
* 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 as a 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 a rush of wind and a river song I can hear my true love moaning
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