Gonna Take a Lot of River Songtext
von The Oak Ridge Boys

I ain′t gonna ride no rail or hitchhike down no highway
I ain't′ going nowhere feeling the way I do
Because my baby's long gone and nothing's going my way
I′m gonna let this muddy water just wash away my blues

It′s gonna take a lot of river
To keep this broken heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
Running all the live long days
Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away

Well, I wish I was a tug boat, pushing and pulling them barges along
Moving on the water with a heart made of iron and steel
There wouldn't be no woman who could ever take my love and then do me wrong
I could work all day with nothing in the world to feel


It′s gonna take a lot of river
To keep this broken heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
Running all the live long days
Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away

Is she in New Orleans?
Is she a Cajun queen?
I wonder what she's doing now
But if I know her, she′s got rings and furs
Struggling along somehow
(Struggling along somehow)

It's gonna take a lot of river
To keep this broken heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
Running all the live long days
Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away


It′s gonna take a lot of river
To keep this broken heart afloat
Gonna take a lot of river
Running all the live long days
Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and the Ohio
Gonna take a lot of river
To wash these blues away

It's gonna take a lot of river
To wash this blues away