SloGrass

Lyrics

There's a lost river that flows in a valley where no one goes,
Where the wild water's rush rumbles deep in the hush.
Gone far from there now, Lord I'll be back somehow
to where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

Oh, lost river, now I'm coming back
to the pot-belly stove, where the firewood's all stacked
Oh Quebec girl, go with me, Oh my bell, my fleur de lis,
Where the lost river winds in the shadow of the pines

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

[chorus]

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

[chorus]
where the lost river winds .... in the shadow of the pines