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(Original by John Hiatt)
My baby's gone and I don't know why
She let out this morning
like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
Left me without warning
sooner than the dogs could bark
and faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
she took a flatboat across the shallow
CHORUS:
Left me in my tears to drown
she left a baby daughter
Now the water'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 her black eyes are ravens
We broke the bread and drank the wine
from a jug that she'd been saving
REPEAT CHORUS
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
to take her from her loved ones
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
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- Somewhere Under Wonderland
- Echoes of The Outlaw Roadshow
- Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
- Miscellaneous
- Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
- Films About Ghosts: The Best Of...
- Casting Crowns
- Hard Candy
- American Girls
- This Desert Life
- Across A Wire-live In New York
- Recovering The Satellites
- August & Everything After
- She Likes The Weather
- New Amsterdam: Live At Heineken Music Hall
- Non-Album Releases
- August & Everything After - Live At Town Hall
- Live & Everything After (Ao Vivo)
- New Amsterdam Live At Heineken Music Hall February 6,...
- Across A Wire - Live From New York