Ohio River Boat Song

Lyrics

When it's time from work to go And in my boat I row 'Cross the muddy Ohio When the evening light is falling And I look towards Floyd's Knobs Where the afterglories flow And I dream on two bright eyes With a merry mouth below She's my beauteous Catarina She's my joy and sorrow too Though I know she is no true Oh, but I cannot live without her For my heart's a boat in tow And I would give the world to know If she means to let me go As I sing the whole day through Catarina, your lovely hair Has more beauty, I declare Than all the tresses there From Smoketown to Oldham County Be they black, red, gold or brown Let them hang to lengths below They mean not as much to me As a melting flake of snow And her dance is like the gleam Of the sunlight on the stream And the screeching blue jays seem To form her name when screaming But my heart is full of woe For last night she made me go And the tears begin to flow As I sing the whole day through