There’s blood in the water
Blood on my hands
My own daughter
Iies down where the river bends
My own father would baptize me in mud
There’s blood in the water and water in my blood
hayeeyay
Bury me where the water washed and set me free
Underneath the cottonwoods
I’ll return to the earth what it gave in birth
This world is not my home
I’m never coming back into the fold
My mama told me
That boy he aint no good
But when he’d hold me
I felt like I knew I should
But I know the Bible like the back of my hand
There’s blood in the water and it aint the blood of the lamb,
heyeeyay
Bury me where the water washed and set me free
Underneath the cottonwoods
I’ll return to the earth what it gave in birth
This world is not my home
I’m never coming back into the fold
It’s getting colder
But my heart is getting warm
I feel no older
Than the day I was born
Have some mercy below and above
There’s blood in the water and water in my lungs
Heyeeyay
Bury me where the water washed and set me free
Underneath the cottonwoods
I’ll return to the earth what it gave in birth
This world is not my home
I’m never coming back into the fold
