Crossing Muddy Waters

Baby's gone and I don't know why
 She let out this mornin'
 Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
 She left me without warnin'
 Sooner than the dogs could bark
 Faster than a sun rose
 Down to the banks on an old mule car
 She took a flatboat 'cross the shallow
 Left me in my tears to drown
 She left a baby daughter
 Now the river's wide and deep and brown
 She's crossin' muddy waters
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 Tobacco standin' 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 savin'
 Left me in my tears to drown
 She left a baby daughter
 Now the river's wide and deep and brown
 She's crossin' muddy waters
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 Baby's cryin' and the daylight's gone
 That big oak tree is groaning
 In a rush of wind and a river of song
 I can hear my true love moanin'
 Cryin' for her baby child
 Or cryin' for her husband
 Cryin' for that river's 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 crossin' muddy waters
 Now the river's wide and deep and brown
 She's crossin' muddy waters