Big River - Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings/The Highwaymen/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson

作词：J.R. Cash

作曲：J.R. Cash

I taught the weeping willow

how to cry cry cry

And I showed the clouds

how to cover up

a clear blue sky

And tears that I

cried for that woman

are gonna flood you

Big River

Then I'm gonna sit right here

until I die

I met her accidentally in St Paul

(Minnesota)

And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl

Southern drawl

Then I heard my dream was back

Downstream cavortin' in Davenport

And I followed you

Big River

when she called

Then she took me to St Louis later on

(down the river)

freighter said she's been here

but she's gone boy she's gone

and I found her trail in Memphis

but she just walked up the block

Raised a few eyebrows

and went on down alone

Well I pulled into Natchez next day

down the river

But there wasn't much there

to make the rounders stay

very long

When I left it was rainin'

so nobody saw me cry

Big river why she doin' me this way

Now won't you batter down

by Baton Rouge

River Queen roll it on

Take that woman on down

to New Orleans New Orleans

Go on I've had enough

dump my blues

down in the gulf

She loves you

big river more than me

I taught the weepin' willow

how to cry cry cry

And I showed the clouds

how to cover up a clear blue sky

And the tears I cried for that woman

are gonna flood you big river

And I'm gonna sit right here

until I die