High and dry in the long hot day
Lost and lonely in every way
Got the flats all around me, sky up above,
Yes, I need a little water of love
I've been too long lonely and my heart feels pain,
Crying out for some soothing rain
I believe I've taken enough,
I need a little water of love
Water of love deep in the ground,
but there aint no water here to be found
Some day baby when the river runs free,
It's gonna carry that water of love to me
There's a bird up in a tree, sitting up high,
Just a-waitin' for me to die
If I don't get some water soon,
I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon
Once I had a woman I could call my own,
Once I had a woman now my woman is gone
Once there was a river now there's a stone
You know it's evil when you're living alone