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