The River - Audra Mae

I’ve done a bad thing it’s okay

I’m going down to the river today

And the river’s gonna wash my sins away

Till I’m born again tomorrow

Oh to get over my head

Make me forget my sorrow

I’m going down to the river alone

Don’t tell mama and daddy I’m gone

And if they cry when I don’t come home

Just lie and tell them I’m funnin'

Whoa to get out of my eyes

Into the river wide I’m runnin'

And I can’t swim

But it’s alright

'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could

And if it weren’t for him and the love that night

I’d be living for the light like a good girl should

'Cause a good girl should

This old town’ll have my skin

I can’t speak the trouble I’m in

So if I don’t come back again

Go lie beneath the willow

'Cause where I carved my name

Is where my soul will remain

And I’ll still know

Lord, and I can’t swim

But it’s alright

'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could

And if it weren’t for him and the love that night

I’d be living for the light like a good girl should

'Cause a good girl should

When I meet the Lord so kind

I’m gonna give him a piece of my mind

And I’ll tell him I wanna know why oh why

When he’s so damned forgivin'

My daddy won’t look in my eyes

Momma knows the lies I’m living

Oh, I can’t swim

But it’s alright

'Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could

And if it weren’t for him and the love that night

I’d be living for the light like a good girl should

…As a good girl should