Fish aren´t biting but I don´t really care and don´t hurry
Like that Wabash River there I´d be drinking
Or laying dead somewhere if it wasn´t for the Wabash River

If it wasn´t for the Wabash River and this willow tree and my pole and a line
I´d be going crazy as an Indiana cyclone
Drowning memories of her and crying, crying, crying
If it wasn´t for the Wabash River I´d be going out off my mind

It´s so peaceful sitting here beneath my tree, Lord I need her
Like she often needed me, life isn´t worth it
Just as far as I can see if it wasn´t for the Wabash River
If it wasn´t for the Wabash River

[Rambler]
Look out man alive
Fifty-five miles an hour, they want us to go on this Interstate

And you go fifty-five and you get run over by a truck so what do you do

[Fisherman]
Man I must be nuts, I just got back from California
All that time out there chasing after her

[Rambler]
Well she must be worth a round trip

[Fisherman]
Worth it
You know there was a time I´d run naked through the snow just to touch that woman

[Rambler]
But you wouldn´t now ha

[Fisherman]
Where we´re at anyway

[Rambler]
I don´t know, I believe that´s the Platte River, you want to go fishing again

[Fisherman]
I had enough fishing

[Rambler]
It´s still a long way to California you know

[Fisherman]
You know, I just might change my mind before we get there

[Rambler]
You sound like you got no control over whether you go or not

[Fisherman]
That´s just it, what is it about a woman that makes such a dummy out of a man
She was wild even when she was loving me, man
I knew tomorrow it´d likely be somebody else she would be with
But you know just that idea that the next day she could be loving me again
That´s what kept me on her tail chasing after all the time
She really was poison, but I guess it was good poison
Look at me here I go again, hoping for another dose of that sweet poison she had, man

Did you ever have a woman like that

[Rambler]
Yeah, I guess I have

[Fisherman]
You know what I mean

[Rambler]
My woman´s a lady

[Fisherman]
A lady

[Rambler]
A lady will give you the best loving you ever had
I don´t care what you had in California but even a lady´s love can burn out though

But what I mean is a good woman a kind, sweet, considerate, understanding woman
That likes to be treated like she treats you
And if that isn´t bull, the better she gives love the more she wants to give
I know what I´m talking about, a lady
Loving´s better is a loving heart´s going to give another and a lady loves to give
Mine did for a little while