Over The Waterfall Lyrics - Singles - Michelle Shocked

I thought I knew what I was doing 

I was wrong 

Mistakes I've made and lived to tell 

I tell them in a song 

I knew a river wide and deep 

Her banks were very tall 

At one end was a mountain stream 

The other was a waterfall, boys 

The other was a waterfall 

I asked the old man by the river 

He did not recall 

The last attempt to ride a barrel 

Over the waterfall 

The ferry boatman, he did tell me 

That the chance was very small 

None survived who went alive 

Over the waterfall, boys 

Over the waterfall 

So I built myself an oaken barrel 

And inside I did crawl 

I broke the record but I broke my back 

Going over the waterfall 

And it's been my luck to live to tell 

The only tale I can 

It don't hurt you when you fall 

Only when you land, boys 

Only when you land