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Crossing Muddy Waters
I’m With Her, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan, Sara Watkins
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I'll send you home with this John Hiatt song
We just still love playin' it
It's one of our all-time favorites
And thanks for listening
One, two, three, four
Baby's gone and I don't know why
She went 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 car
She took a flatboat across the shallow
She left me in my tears to drown
She left you baby daughter
Now the river is wide and deep and brown
She's crossing muddy waters
Tobacco standing in the field
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'
She left me in my tears to drown
She left you baby daughter
Now the river is wide and deep and brown
She's crossing muddy waters
Baby's crying 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 moaning
Crying for her baby child
And crying for her husband
Crying for that river wild (crying)
To take her from her loved ones
She left me in my tears to drown (ooh-ooh-ooh)
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