I´ve done a bad thing it´s okay I´m going down to the river today And the river´s gonna wash my sins away Til I´m born again tomorrow Oh to get over my head
Make me forget my sorrow
I´m going down to the river alone Don´t tell mama and daddy I´m gone And if they cry when I don´t come home Just lie and tell them I´m funnin´ Whoa to get out of my eyes Into the river wide I´m runnin´
And I can´t swim But it´s alright ´Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could And if it weren´t for him and the love that night I´d be living for the light like a good girl should ´Cause a good girl should
This old town´ll have my skin I can´t speak the trouble I´m in So if I don´t come back again Go lie beneath the willow ´Cause where I carved my name Is where my soul you´ll remain And I´ll still know
Lord, and I can´t swim But it´s alright ´Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could And if it weren´t for him and the love that night I´d be living for the light like a good girl should ´Cause a good girl should
When I meet the Lord so kind
I´m gonna give him a piece of my mind And I´ll tell him I wanna know why oh why When he´s so damned forgivin´ My daddy won´t look in my eyes Momma knows the lies I´m living
Oh, I can´t swim But it´s alright ´Cause all my sin will drag me down even if I could And if it weren´t for him and the love that night I´d be living for the light like a good girl should ´Cause a good girl should