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Ma baby lives across de river / An' I ain't got no boat.
She lives across de river, / I ain't got no boat.
I ain't a good swimmer / An' I don't know how to float.
Wide, wide river / 'Tween ma love an' me.
Wide, wide river / 'Tween ma love an' me.
I never knowed how / Wide a river can be.
Got to cross that river / An' git to ma baby somehow.
Cross that river, / Git to ma baby somehow, / Cause if I don't see ma baby / I'll lay down an' die right now.