C G7
I ain't gonna ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway
C
I aint' going nowhere feeling the way I do
G7
Because my baby's long gone and nothings going my way
C
I'm gonna let this muddy water just wash away my blues
G7
Gonna take a lot of river to keep this broken heart afloat
C
Gonna take a lot of river running all the live long day
G7
Gonna take the Mississippi the Monongahela and the Ohio
C
Gonna take a lot of river to wash these blues away
G7
Well I wish I was tug boat pushing and pulling them barges along
C
Moving on the water with a heart made of iron and steel
There wouldn't be no woman that could ever
G7
Take my loving and do me wrong
C
I could work all day with nothing in the world to feel
G7
Gonna take a lot of river to keep this broken heart afloat
C
Gonna take a lot of river running all the live long day
G7
Gonna take the Mississippi the Monongahela and the Ohio
C
Gonna take a lot of river to wash these blues away
F G#m
Is she in New Orleans is she a Cajun queen
A# C
I wonder what she's doing now
F G#
But if I know her she's got rings and furs
A# C
Struggling along somehow
G7
Gonna take a lot of river to keep this broken heart afloat
C
Gonna take a lot of river running all the live long day
G7
Gonna take the Mississippi the Monongahela and the Ohio
C
Gonna take a lot of river to wash these blues away
