| The bridge washed out and I can’t swim
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| And my baby’s on the other side
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| When I awoke this a morning the rain was a pouring down
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| I was gonna wed the little river girl
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| Just over the bridge across town
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| Now I’m a runnin' up and down the river
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| And my nerves’re drivin' me wild
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| Cause the bridge washed out I can’t swim
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| And my baby’s on the other side
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| Rain oh rain stop a fallin' dark clouds hurry from the sky
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| The preacher and my bride’re waitin' and the weddin' bells’re startin' to chime
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| I can’t kiss and hold her and it’s drivin' me out of my mind
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| Cause the bridge washed out and I can’t swim
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| And my baby’s on the other side
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| Now I got one foot in the water the one foot solid on the ground
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| I try to swim that ragin' old river but I know if I try I’d drown
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| There’s not a boat around me they walked on out with the tide
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| And the bridge washed out and I can’t swim
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| And my baby’s on the other side
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| Rain oh rain stop a fallin' dark clouds hurry from the sky
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| The preacher and my bride’re waitin'
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| And the weddin' bells’re startin' to chime
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| I can’t kiss and hold her and it’s drivin' me out of my mind
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| Yeah the bridge washed out
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| And I can’t swim and my baby’s on the other side |