Hm-hm-hm!
If you listen you can hear it call
Wail-a-ree
(Wail-a-ree)

There is a river, called the river of no return
Sometimes it's peaceful, and sometimes wild and free!
Love is a traveler, on the river of no return
Swept on forever, to be lost in the stormy sea

(Wail-a-ree)
I can hear the river call
(No return, no return)
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 forever my heart will yearn
Gone. Gone forever!
Down the river of no return
Wail-a-ree wail-a-re-e-ee
He'll never return, to me!
(No return, no return)

Never!