When you got no roots you get blown around

Like tumbleweed in an old ghost town

I pray a mercy wind will carry you down

Someplace by the river

You can only run for so long

Trying to forget where you come from

And then you hear that river song?

Calling you home to the river

Cause you're a river child but your spirits dry

The river feels your pain and hears your cry

And it knows that your soul will surely die

If you don't get back to the river

If the water be wild or it be still

Just step right in and drink your fill

And let that river take you where it will

You'll come alive in the river

Let that river take you where ever it will

You were born in the river