Crossing Muddy Waters

<br>(Original by John Hiatt) <br><br>My baby`s gone and I don`t know why<br>She let out this morning <br>like a rusty shot in a hollow sky <br>Left me without warning <br>sooner than the dogs could bark <br>and faster than the sun rose <br>Down to the banks in an old mule car <br>she took a flatboat across the shallow <br>CHORUS: <br>Left me in my tears to drown <br>she left a baby daughter <br>Now the water`s wide and deep and brown <br>She`s crossing muddy waters<br>Tobacco standing in the fields <br>be rotten come November <br>And a bitter heart will not reveal <br>a spring that love remembers <br>When that sweet brown girl of mine her black eyes are ravens <br>We broke the bread and drank the wine <br>from a jug that she`d been saving <br>REPEAT CHORUS <br>Baby`s crying and the daylight`s gone<br>That big oak tree is groaning <br>In rush of wind and river of song <br>I can hear my sweetheart moaning <br>Crying for her baby child <br>or crying for her husband <br>Crying for that river`s wild <br>to take her from her loved ones <br>REPEAT CHORUS TWICE