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My baby's gone and I don't know why
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She let out this morning
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Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
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Left me without warning
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Sooner than the dogs could bark
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and faster than the sun rose
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Down to the banks in an old mule car
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she took a flatboat across the shallow
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CHORUS:
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Left me in my tears to drown
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she left a baby daughter
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Now the water's wide and deep and brown
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She's crossing muddy waters
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Tobacco standing in the fields
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be rotten come November
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And a bitter heart will not reveal
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a spring that love remembers
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When that sweet brown girl of mine
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her black eyes are ravens
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We broke the bread and drank the wine
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from a jug that she'd been saving
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REPEAT CHORUS
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Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
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That big oak tree is groaning
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In rush of wind and river of song
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I can hear my sweetheart moaning
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Crying for her baby child
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or crying for her husband
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Crying for that river's wild
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to take her from her loved ones
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REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
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Crossing Muddy Waters
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| John Hiatt |
