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!