Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Muddy Water

Kicking Against The Pricks / 1986-03-01 1. Sleeping Analeah 2. The Hammer Song (in album kicking against the pricks) 3. Hey Joe 4. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well 5. Long Black Veil 6. Muddy Water 7. By The Time I Get To Phoenix 8. The Carnival Is Over 9. Black Betty 10. All Tomorrow's Parties 11. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart 12. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman 13. Running Scared 14. The Singer

Muddy Water

(J. Bundrick)

Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back the land
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand

Well the morning light shows water in the valley
Daddy's grave just went below the line
Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
This flood will swallow all you've left behind

Won't be back to start all over
Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home
The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
Turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting land, broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I know

It's hard to say just what I'm losing
Ain't never felt so all alone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home

Won't be back to start all over
Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water's changing all I know
Muddy water's changing all I know
Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home