GBaby's gone and I don't know wChy
she hDeaded out this mEmorning
like a rusty shot in a hollow Csky
she lDeft me without wGarning
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 tCears to drown
she lDeft a baby dauEmghter
now the river's wide and deep and bCrown
she's cDrossing muddy wGaters
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
Hiatt John:
