Blue river

by Peter Wibberley

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Cross the river wide
running white and high
no more will I roam
all this world all alone

So long I have been away
but now at last I have returned
tell to me does she sit and wait
or am I too late to learn?

blue river
blue blue river
bury me beneath the stone
blue blue river
carry me I'm coming home

it was only yesterday
half a thousand miles away
when I found to my surprise
when at last I realized

she was all I really wanted
but I didn't know the cost
I'd do anything to get back
what I have nearly lost

Blue river
blue blue river
take me back
to her brown eyes
blue blue river
wash away
a year of lies

I don't know what's in store for me
on the other shore to see
will she still be wild and free
or has she forgotten me

And if she no longer cares
then I'll up and go away
but if just a smile she shares
she will be reason to stay

Blue river
blue blue river
blue the heart
that beats in me
blue river
bluer than all memory

Cross the river wide
running white and high
no more will I roam
all this world all alone

Blue river
blue blue river
bury me
beneath the stone
blue blue river
carry me
I'm coming home.

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released May 21, 2016
Music (c) 2016 Peter Wibberley
Lyrics (c) Joel Sattler
(P) Peter Wibberley

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