I keep on runnin' baby
I keep on runnin' but I just can't hide
No, I just can't hide...
I keep on hurtin' baby
I keep on hurtin' so deep inside - so deep inside

[Pre-Chorus]
Lord, I need your smile child
Like the one I once knew
Made my grass green & my blue skies blue
Lord, was time when 2 was 1, tell me now girl
Where've all the good times gone?
-(Mm-mm, Mm-mm, Mm-mm yeah...)-

[Chorus]
Lord I say
I'm gonna cry me a river
Wash my blues away
I'm gonna cry me a river
Girl you is my riverboat, oh yeah
Baby, take me away

I'm reachin' out my hand... Won't you please
Help me to my feet once again, oh, once again?
Tears fallin' like rain... Lord it's a time
When everybody needs a friend
Now girl where you been, yeah?
[Pre-Chorus]
Lord, I need your smile child
Like the one I once knew
Made my grass green & my blue skies blue
Lord, was time when 2 was 1, tell me now girl
Where've all the good times gone
-(Mm-mm, Mm-mm, Mm-mm yeah...)-

[Chorus]
Lord I say
I'm gonna cry me a river
Wash my blues away
I'm gonna cry me a river
Girl you is my riverboat, oh yeah
Baby, take me away
...oh take away child

[Solo]

-(Mm-mm, Mm-mm, Mm-mm yeah...)-

[Chorus]
Oh Lord I say
I'm gonna cry me a river
Wash my blues away
I'm gonna cry me a river
Lo', wash my blues away
I'm gonna cry me a river
Wash my blues away, yeah
I'm gonna cry me a river
Girl you is my riverboat, oh yeah
Mm baby, come take me away... ah yeah