00:00She was born and born
00:30She was born and born
01:00Down by the banks where the brambles grow
01:03Swimming around in trouble and strife
01:05Way down low in the river of life
01:09All the hills of thorns and valleys of scorn
01:13Rambling like she was jibs and born
01:15Traveling on through weather and storm
01:18Without a heart of danger
01:20She was young and looking for fun
01:23Nothing she had never done
01:25So lost and sweet oblivion
01:27She welcomed in the stranger
01:30But the stranger he was the one to rape
01:34For he took her money and he called her a fight
01:36And he shook her around like an old earthquake
01:39And left her there for plunder
01:41A heart-gone man must never be found
01:44She'd lie in the dark and roll around
01:46But she was always on the rebound
01:48And she never would go under
01:51She could have been a lady
01:54She could have been a wife
01:55She fell into the river of life
01:57Swimming in a pool of trouble and strife
02:00She really loved the danger
02:02But the river of life
02:03It froze and closed
02:05Down by the banks where the brambles grow
02:07Swimming around in trouble and strife
02:10Way down low in the river of life
02:13Now the woman of character wins in the end
02:25The river of life will be our friend
02:27An old trail apart like a true upstart
02:30The river of life has made her
02:33And like the flood she will surely rise
02:35High as the hills in the clear blue sky
02:37She never was a lady but she was wise
02:40And nothing much could change her
02:42She could have been a lady
02:44She could have been a wife
02:45She fell into the river of life
02:47Swimming in a pool of trouble and strife
02:50She really loved the danger
02:52Or the river of life
02:53It froze and closed
02:55Down by the banks where the brambles grow
02:57Swimming around in trouble and strife
03:00Way down low in the river of life
03:03Swimming around in trouble and strife
03:05Opposed to curb roof
03:05Hymn is stung
03:06Ho
