Lyrics

Old Riverman Blues

Old riverman's lonesome, old riverman's blue
He's a working on the river with the riverman blues
On a lake bed highway, that's a riverman's home
And home is where the heart is and he's all alone

But you just watch that old riverman's eyes
He always knows when the river's 'bout to rise
Old riverman's lonesome, old riverman's blue
He's a working on the river with the riverman blues

Three thousand miles old riverman goes
Down the Mississippi River and the Ohio
The Missouri and the Cumberland, Tennessee and Illinois
Monongahela, Allegheny and the big Conoy

But you can hear that steamboat whistle blow
And you can feel that river in his soul
Old riverman's lonesome, old riverman's blue
He's a working on the river with the riverman blues
He's a working on the river with the riverman blues
He's a working on the river