John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters (Lyrics in description) video free download

From his 2000 album of the same name.

John Hiatt - Vocals and guitar

Davey Faragher - Bass, and backing vocals

David Immergluck - Mandolin, vocals

Lyrics:

My baby's gone and I don't know why

She let out this morning

Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

She left me without warning

Sooner than the dogs could bark

And faster than the sun rose

Down to the banks on an old mule car

She took a flatboat across the shallow

[Chorus:]

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river'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

Hair black as a raven

We broke the bread and drank the wine

From a jug that she'd been saving

[Chorus]

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river's 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

Or crying for her husband

Crying for that river's wild

To take her from her loved ones

[Chorus]

She left me in my tears to drown

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