River Lady (A Little Goodbye)

The day the river freezes
 Is the day it won't seem fair
 'Cause they'll come to get the River Lady
 And I don't think they'll care
 I know they'll scrape her paint off
 In their same old foolish ways
 Now the people see the river
 But the old ship's gone away
 Water turns cold and gets to freezin'
 Before you even know it
 The old girl's easin'
 Away from her birth
 Round by the point and out of our view
 Off in the mist her engine's poundin'
 Back on the banks that old horn's soundin'
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
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 I know I will remember
 When I cannot hear that horn
 That would roll up by the mountains
 As she took us through the storm
 I know they've got to take her
 But I can't say I approve
 'Cause she's won so many battles
 That I hate to see her lose
 Water turns cold and gets to freezin'
 Before you even know it
 The old girl's easin'
 Away from her birth
 Round by the point and out of our view
 Off in the mist her engine's poundin'
 Back on the banks that old horn's soundin'
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 Water turns cold and gets to freezin'
 Before you even know it the old girl's easin'
 Away from her birth
 'Round by the point and out of our view
 Off in the mist her engine's poundin'
 Back on the banks that old horn's soundin'
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 Water turns cold and gets to freezin'
 Before you even know it the old girl's easin'
 Away from her birth
 'Round by the point and out of our view
 Off in the mist her engine's poundin'
 Back on the banks that old horn's soundin'
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 A little goodbye
 A little I'll do what I must do
 Water turns cold and gets to freezin'
 Before you even know it the old girl's easin'
 Away from her berth
 'Round by the point and out of our view