Blind River Boy-Amy Correia

[ti:Blind River Boy] [ar:Amy Correia] [al:Carnival Love] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blind River Boy - Amy Correia [00:10.95]There was a blind boy in Memphis Tennessee [00:14.13]Who heard the savior call but he could not see [00:18.22]Him [00:19.28] [00:21.25]He walked along the river's edge [00:24.21]Among the weeds and the red clay bed [00:27.29] [00:31.62]And he thought that he might follow him [00:34.89]Thought that he might follow him [00:40.52] [00:42.12]He was walking with a can of warm beer in [00:45.56]His hand [00:46.18]And singing whole lotta love [00:51.38] [00:52.76]Cicadas they were groaning in the trees [00:56.43]Weaving drunkenly up toward the sun [01:02.78]And he walked under the swollen sky [01:05.89]And felt the weight of what it was [01:09.98] [01:13.10]Oh blind river boy [01:15.66] [01:16.27]Blind river boy [01:22.13] [01:23.33]Oh blind river boy [01:26.08]Where are you going to the night [01:29.22] [01:33.47]Well he had a thought he might stop and rest [01:37.40]Under the weeping willow limbs [01:40.68] [01:43.43]And he decided to go wading [01:46.34]And he left his boots and hat there on the [01:48.82]Ledge [01:50.29] [01:53.82]And he found his feet out walking [01:56.52]Where the water bloomed a brilliant red [02:00.84] [02:04.09]Oh blind river boy [02:06.86] [02:07.46]Blind river boy [02:13.05] [02:14.43]Oh blind river boy [02:17.26]Where are you going to the night [02:22.05] [02:24.59]He went into his waist and the water [02:28.25]Curled around him in a wake [02:32.60] [02:34.41]All the water singing 'round him [02:38.17]What a lovely sound the water makes [02:42.14] [02:43.24]What a lovely sound the water makes [02:47.19] [02:50.80]Tenderly lifted like a woman in her [02:54.16]Lover's gentle arms [02:56.67] [03:00.30]Well the river pulled him under and [03:02.97]He heard a tugboat far off call [03:07.68] [03:10.43]And a panic rose inside of him [03:13.66]He knew he was in terrible terrible harm [03:17.07] [03:20.10]And now he's headed like a prayer [03:24.72] [03:25.75]To be spoken [03:26.61]At the river's deepest sound [03:34.55]Oh blind river boy [03:37.59]Blind river boy [03:43.16] [03:44.61]Oh blind river boy [03:47.43]Where are you going tonight [03:54.68]Oh blind river boy