Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Monongahel

I ain't gonna ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway

I aint' going nowhere feeling the way I do

Because my baby's long gone and nothings going my way

I'm gonna let this muddy water just wash away my blues.



Chorus:

Gonna take a lot of river,

To keep this broken heart afloat,

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long days,

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio,

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away.



Well, I wish I was tug boat pushing and pulling them barges along

Moving on the water with a heart made of iron and steel

There wouldn't be no women that could ever take my loving and do me wrong

I could work all day with nothing in the world to feel.



Chorus:

Gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long days

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away.



Is she in new orleans

Is she a cajun queen

I wonder what she's doing now

But if I know her she's got rings and furs, struggling along somehow.



Chorus:

Gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long days

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away.



Gonna take a lot of river

To keep this broken heart afloat

Gonna take a lot of river

Running all the live long days

Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio

Gonna take a lot of river

To wash these blues away...