Naomi Wise - Bob Dylan

Well she met him as she promised

Up at Adam’s this spring

Expecting some money

Or some other fine thing

No money, no money

To flatter the case

«We'll have to get married

So there’ll be no disgrace.»

«So jump you up Omie

And away we will ride

To yonder fair country

Where the cool waters glide.»

She jumped up behind him

And away they did ride

To yonder fair country

Where the deep waters glide

«Now jump you down Omie

And i’ll tell you my mind

My mind is to drown you

And to leave you behind.»

She begged and she pleaded

«Oh, don’t take my life

And i will deny you

And i’ll never be your wife.»

There she kicked and he cuffed her

To the worst understand

And he threw her in deep water

That flows through the land

They found her poor body

The following day

The preacher and the reverend

Lord, they all begun to pray

And up spoke her mother

With a voice so a-sting

«Nobody but John Lewis

Could’ve done such a thing.»

They traced him up the waters

To Dutch Charlie’s Bend

Where they found him in jail

For killin' a man

«Go hang him, go hang him.»

Was that mother’s command

«And throw him in deep waters

That flows through the land.»