baby's gone and i don't know why
she headed out this morning
like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
she left me without warning
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 tears to drown
she left a baby daughter
now the river's wide and deep and brown
she's crossing muddy waters
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
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
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