Sunrise Over Big Muddy - Marley's Ghost

You got yer Huckleberry Finn, you got yer crocodile smile

Gotcher red beans and rice on yer green radio dial

You got old Luke the Drifter, like a voice from beyond

In a scene I recreate

Back in that room on a long afternoon

And a kid of 6 or 8

I acquired a taste for that deep Southern sound

While them sad old steels whined

And my mind rolls on like Big Muddy

Back to that slow-moving time

Well, I never got down to Looziann' till I was 29

When I fell in love with a Creole girl, she stole this soul of mine

With her deep brown eyes and her beautiful breasts

And her lips like rare French wine

And we drank our fill of the warm night air

While the Cajun fiddles whined

And watched the sun rise over Big Muddy

Once upon a wonderful time

No engineer can take me there — it’s lost like a beautiful dream

But someday I’ll be gone, following a song

Pretty Mama, won’t you come along with me?

For if you close yer eyes you can’t help but harmonize —

It’s as easy as laughter and tears

On dit que Plus ça change, toules les choses restent al meme

That old river keeps a-rollin' while she’s restin' in her bed

And the music runs on like Big Muddy through my head

In that lazy old three-quarter time