Muddy Water Lyrics

Muddy Water lyrics

(J. Bundrick)

Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
Muddy water
taking back the land
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more
beating
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand


Well the morning
light shows water in the valley
Daddy's grave just went below the
line
Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
This flood will
swallow all you've left behind


Won't be back to start all
over
Cause what I felt before is gone


Mary, take the child, the
river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home
The road is gone, there's
just one way to leave here
Turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting
land, broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I
know


It's hard to say just what I'm losing
Ain't never felt so
all alone


Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water
taking back my home


Won't be back to start all over
Cause what I
felt before is gone


Mary, take the child, the river's
rising
Muddy water's changing all I know
Muddy water's changing all I
know
Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home