There is a river called THE RIVER OF NO RETURN 
Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free! 
Love is a trav'ler on THE RIVER OF NO RETURN 
Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea 
Wail-a-ree I can hear the river call [ no return, no return ] 
Where the roarin' waters fall wail-a-ree 
I can hear my lover [bad word] to me [ no return, no return ] 
I lost my love on the river and for ever my heart will yearn 
Gone gone for ever down THE RIVER OF NO RETURN 
Wail-a-ree wail-a-re-e-ee 
She'll/He'll never return to me! [ no return, no return, no return ]