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

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

Chorus twice

• Angel Eyes
• Book Lovers
• Crossing Muddy Waters
• Death by Misadventure
• Don't Know Much About Love
• Falling Up
• Girl on a String
• Gone
• I Don't Even Try
• I Got a Gun
• I'm a Real Man
• Lincoln Town
• Living a Little, Laughing a Little
• Love in Flames
• Love Like Blood
• Lovers Will
• Number One Honest Game
• Only The Song Survives
• Riding With The King
• Rock of Your Love
• Say It With Flowers
• She Loves The Jerk
• She Said The Same Things to Me
• The Crush
• The Love That Harms
• The Usual
• The Way We Make a Broken Heart
• Warming up to The Ice Age
• When We Ran
• You May Already Be a Winner