If you listen, you can hear it call : wail a ree ! (wail a ree)
There is a river called The River Of No Return,
sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free!
Love is a trav'ler on The River Of No Return,
swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea.
(Wail a ree) I can hear the river call (no return, no return)
No return, no return (wail a ree).
I can hear my lover call come to me (no return, no return)
I lost my love on the river and forever my heart will yearn,
Gone, gone forever down The River Of No Return.
Wail a ree (wail a re e ee), wail a r ee.
He'll never return to me!