Crossing Muddy Waters

Intro: 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 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 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 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 crying for her baby child oh crying for her husband crying for that rivers wild to take her from her loved ones 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 now the river's wide and deep and brown she's crossing muddy waters