Mmm-mmm-mmmmm
If you listen you can hear it call, wail-a-ree (wail-a-ree).
There is a river called the river of no retur-urn
Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free
Love is a traveller on the river of no retur-urn
Swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea (wail-a-ree).
I can hear the river call (no return, no return)
(Where the roarin' waters fall) No return, no return (wail-a-ree)
I can hear my lover call, come to me (no return, no return).
I lost my love on the river and for ever my heart will year-earn
Gone, gone for ever down the river of no re-eturn
Wail-a-ree (wail-a-ree) wail-a-re-ee-eeeee
He'll never return to me (no return, no return)