Singing River

I remember as a boy how I heard your melody

In the hills of Alabama by that mighty Tennessee

It's the lyric of your waters, it's the rustling of the pines

And though my feet may ramble, still you call me home tonight

You're my music, you're my rhythm

Wherever I may roam

So let your singing river sing me all the way home

Well you're calling in the springtime when the streams are all in flood

And my tears roll down like crimson through that Alabama mud

The lonely yellowhammer he is tapping like a drum

He's beating with the music of that river that I love

You're my music, you're my rhythm

Wherever I may roam

So let your singing river sing me all the way home

Some folks wade the Jordan, some swim the Rio Grande

Looking for redemption in some promised land

But when I cross on over along my pilgrim way

It'll be that Tennessee River that brings me home to stay

You're my music, you're my rhythm

Wherever I may roam

So let your singing river sing me all the way home

Let your singing river sing me all the way home