Muddy River (Darling Sally), by Andrew Hunt

Take this bag of bones

Weigh it down with heavy stones

Set it adrift in that muddy muddy river

Let the current twist and turn

My body not return

To the banks where once my heart was spurned

(Chorus) Have you all but long forgotten

We once couldn't see but for the cotton

Rising up against the valley

Do you? May darling Sally

Do you? My darling Sally

Take this house, burn it down

Burn it right into the ground

Let it be my true love's funeral pyre

And the flames, higher and higher

Rising up with form a spire

Such a fate I'd not desire of just anyone

(Chorus) It was twenty years ago

I still love you don't you know

But why did you marry me

If it was him my darling Sally?

If it was him my darling Sally?

Take that man that did choose

To stand right inside my shoes

Let him lose all that he has or hopes to gain

Take these hands that once wrote

To you a love note

Place them rightly not politely on his throat

Squeezing hard am not let go

Wiping out the one who stole all that I had

Or ever even wanted

(Chorus) It would not have been so bad

If you 'da hadn't looked so sad

On the day when I first found you

With his arms around you

With his arms around you

And the chimney I built of stone

Nearly broke my back and bone

Let it fall into that fallow field

And in the winter let the snow

Cover up all what we know

And for a marker just the cold wind as it blows

Have you all but long forgotten

We once coudn't see for the cotton

Rising up against the valley

Do you my darling Sally?

Yeah -- do you my darling Sally?

Yeah -- do you my darling Sally?

copyright 2001 Andrew Hunt

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