Big River

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Hello, we're Trick Pony 

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Well, I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry 
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And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky 
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And the tears I cried for that man, they're gonna flood you, big river 
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Well, I'm gonna sit right here until I die 
 

 
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Now I met him accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota 
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And it tore me up every time I heard his drawl, that Southern drawl 
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Then I heard my dream went back downstream, cavorting in Davenport 
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And I followed you, big river, when you called, oh yeah 

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Then you took me to St. Louis later on down the river 
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A freighter said she's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone 
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I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the bluff 
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She raised a few eyebrows and went on down alone 
 

 
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Well, now I pulled into Natchez next day down the river 
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But there wasn't that much to make around to stay very long 
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When I left, it was raining, so nobody saw me cry 
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Big river, why's she doing me this way?  

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Now won't you batter down by Baton Rouge, river queen, rolling on 
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Take that man on down to New Orleans, I said New Orleans 
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Go on, I've had enough, put my blues down in the gulf 
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Yeah, he loves you, big river, more than me 
 

 
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Yeah, I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry 
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And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky 
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And the tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river 
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And I'm gonna sit right here until I die 
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Yeah, now I'm gonna sit right here until I die (Until I die) 
That's right 

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