Mary grab the baby river's rising   Muddy water's taking back the land   Well this old house it won't take one more beating   Ain't no use to stay and make a stand.      The morning light showed water in the valley   Daddy's grave just went below the line   Things to save you just can't take them with you   The flood will swallow all we leave behind.      I won't be back to start all over   'Cause what I felt before is gone   Mary grab the baby river's rising   Muddy water's taking back our home.      Now the road is gone there's just one way to leave here.   I'll turn my back on what I've left below   Shifting land and broken farms around me   Muddy water's changing all I know.      It's hard to say just what I'm losing   Ain't never been so all alone   Mary grab the baby river's rising   Muddy water's taking back my home.   Well muddy water's taking back my home.