My love is like a river, 
She just keeps on rolling along

No man ever can keep that girl
From moving on
Easy as [bad word] by, 
Easy as she's gone

Get down, real down, 
Crying how I love that girl, 
She's as free as heaven on a breeze

Lay my burden down, 
Down by the river's edge, 
There I learned to let my lover be

And don't you know I'd hold you (hold you, oh yeah)
If I could find a way, (oh yeah, oh yeah)
If I could only catch you, (oooh, catch you, oh yeah)
If only you would stay. (stay, stay)

And don't you know I want you, (want you, want you)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, stay (stay, yeah)
If I could only love you, (love me)
But girl you keep on [bad word] away (x3)
Oh oh no no (yeah)

My love is like a river.