There is a river called THE RIVER OF RETURN Sometimes it’s peaceful and sometimes wild and free is a trav’ler on RIVER OF NO RETURN Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea Wail-a-ree I can the river [ no return, no return ] Where the roarin’ waters fall wail-a-ree can hear my lover call come to me no return, no return ] I lost my love on the and for ever my heart will yearn gone for ever down THE RIVER OF NO RETURN Wail-a-ree She’ll never return to me! [ no return, no return, no return ]