## Metadata
**Caption:** country rockabilly, mid tempo, narrative lyric, boom-chicka-boom, 1958, male vocal
**BPM:** 300
**Duration:** 170.0s
**Key:** E major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
I met her where the water turns to muddy brown
Standin' on a landing in a river town
She smiled and she was gone before the whistle blew
Left me chasin' shadows down a river she once knew

[verse]
I followed every current from the north to south
Askin' every ferryman about her pretty mouth
Through the towns and levees, past the willow trees
That river took my heart and lost it in the breeze

[chorus]
Big river, carry me along
Big river, sing me one more song
You took her south and left me standin' here
Big river, roll me to my dear

[verse]
I hitched a ride on barges, walked the muddy banks
Slept beneath the bridges, gave the current thanks
For every mile it showed me where she might have gone
But the river keeps its secrets and keeps rollin' on

[chorus]
Big river, carry me along
Big river, sing me one more song
You took her south and left me standin' here
Big river, roll me to my dear

[bridge]
Down past the delta, out toward the sea
That old river's still got a hold on me
Maybe she's out yonder where the water meets the tide
Maybe I'll just keep on rollin' till I'm by her side

[chorus]
Big river, carry me along
Big river, sing me one more song
You took her south and left me standin' here
Big river, roll me to my dear