Shenandoah

Lord have mercy on my mind

Mercy on my memory

I'm lying beneath the same Virginia sky

Where she laid beside me biding time

Trying to abide me

Every night when the night was long

She was clinging to me

Told me twice that her love was strong

Stronger than the love in old love songs

She was singing to me

Oh Shenandoah

'Cross the rolling water

Oh Shenandoah

Where's your restless daughter

Don't know what I gave them for

All my little lessons

How you start the peas before the corn

How you start before the air is warm

She was never listenin'

I could see there in her sorry eyes

Hear it in her breathing

Didn't come to me like some surprise

Didn't even ask her why

When she said "I'm leavin "

Oh Shenandoah

Cross the rolling water

Oh Shenandoah

Where's your willful daughter

I brought in the winter squash

I brought in the melon

Cortland Empire Macintosh

On the afternoon before the frost

I could feel it coming

I can see her now in the flowery clothes

All those things I bought her

Trailing her perfume wherever she goes

'Cross the rolling water Shenandoah

Where's your reckless daughter

Shenandoah mercy on your daughter