Ohio River Boat Song - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

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