| I ain’t gonna ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway
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| I aint' going nowhere feeling the way I do
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| Because my baby’s long gone and nothings going my way
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| I’m gonna let this muddy water just wash away my blues
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| It’s gonna take a lot of river
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| To keep this broken heart afloat
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| Running all the live long days
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| Gonna take the Mississippi
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| The Monongahela and the Ohio
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| To wash these blues away
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| Well, I wish I was a tug boat pushing and pulling them barges along
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| Moving on the water with a heart made of iron and steel
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| There wouldn’t be no women that could ever take my loving and do me wrong
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| I could work all day with nothing in the world to feel
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| It’s gonna take a lot of river
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| To keep this broken heart afloat
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| Running all the live long days
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| Gonna take the Mississippi
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| The Monongahela and the Ohio
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| To wash these blues away
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| Is she in New Orleans
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| Is she a Cajun Queen
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| I wonder what she’s doing now
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| But if I know her
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| She’s got rings and furs
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| Struggling along somehow
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| It’s gonna take a lot of river
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| To keep this broken heart afloat
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| Running all the live long days
|
| Gonna take the Mississippi
|
| The Monongahela and the Ohio
|
| Gonna take a lot of river
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| To wash these blues away
|
| It’s 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
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| The Monongahela and the Ohio
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| Gonna take a lot of river
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| To wash these blues away |