CZTERY REFY - Waterbound

Waterbound

Words & music traditional

River's up, and I can't get across,
River's up, and I can't get across,
River's up, and I can't get across,
Way down in North Carolina!

Chicken'- crowing in the old plough' field,
Chicken's crowing in the old plough' field,
Chicken's crowing in the old plough' field,
Way down in North Carolina!

Waterbound, and I can't get home... I got a gal and her name is Sal,
I got a gal and her name is Sal,
I got a gal and her name is Sal,
Way down in North Carolina!

Waterbound, and I can't get home... Her old man's mad, but I don't care,
Her old man's mad, but I don't care,
Her old man's mad, but I don't care,
As! long as I get his daughter!

Waterbound, and I can't get home...

"Waterbound" - this is one of the first fiddle tunes I learned - it's a fiddler's/ banjo - player's favorite even in California! I never imagined I'd end up living on a river in North Carolina: as I write this, I'm in my office only a stone's throw from the Cape Fear River, in Wilmington, North Carolina.