Crossing Muddy Waters Lyrics - Terms Of My Surrender - John Hiatt

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 

Related 

27 Best Ever Songs From Movie Soundtracks 

Linkin Park Honors Chester Bennington In The Emotional Video For 'One More Light' 

Watch Beck's Heroic New Music Video For 'Up All Night' 

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 

Photos 

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