Lost River

Artist:  Michael Martin Murphey
Writer:  Michael Martin Murphey
Key:     B
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvJ3iH17mrI



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There's a lost river that flows in a valley where no one goes
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Where the wild waters rush from those deep in the hush
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Though I'm far from there now, lord I'll be back somehow
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To where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

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    Oh lost river now I'm comin' back
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    To the pot-bellied stove, where the firewood's all stacked
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    Ah, Quebec girl go with me, ah my belle de fleur-de-lis
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    Where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

Now everybody knows where that lost river flows
It's some place he's lost behind the bridges that he's crossed
And he'd like to return but the bridges are all burned
And he's much too far down to return to higher ground

    Oh lost river now I'm comin' back
    To the pot-bellied stove, where the firewood's all stacked
    Ah, Quebec girl go with me, ah my belle de fleur-de-lis
    Where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

    Oh lost river far over the ridge
    Now is it too late for me to build me a new bridge
    To the bright golden time when her love was still mine
    And the world was still wild like the heart of a child

    Oh lost river now I'm comin' back
    To the pot-bellied stove, where the firewood's all stacked
    Ah, Quebec girl go with me, ah my belle de fleur-de-lis
    Where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

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