CHORUS: Moody River, more deadly, than the vainest knife. Moody River, your muddy water, took my baby's life. #1. Last Saturday evening, came to the old Oak tree. It stands beside the river, where you were to meet me. #2. On the ground your glove I found, with a note addressed to me. It read, Dear love, I've done you wrong, now I must set you free. #3. No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin, I just couldn't tell you, that guy was just a friend. CHORUS: Moody River, more deadly, than the vainest knife. Moody River, your muddy water, took my baby's life. #4. I looked into the muddy water, and what could I see? I saw a lonely, lonely face just looking back at me. #5. Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips. CHORUS: Moody River, more deadly, than the vainest knife. Moody River, your muddy water, took my baby's life.