Bob Dylan - Naomi Wise lyrics

Well she met him as she promised Up at Adam's this spring Expecting some money Or some other fine thing No money, no money To flatter the case "We'll have to get married So there'll be no disgrace." "So jump you up Omie And away we will ride To yonder fair country Where the cool waters glide." She jumped up behind him And away they did ride To yonder fair country Where the deep waters glide "Now jump you down Omie And i'll tell you my mind My mind is to drown you And to leave you behind." She begged and she pleaded "Oh, don't take my life And i will deny you And i'll never be your wife." There she kicked and he cuffed her To the worst understand And he threw her in deep water That flows through the land They found her poor body The following day The preacher and the reverend Lord, they all begun to pray And up spoke her mother With a voice so a-sting "Nobody but John Lewis Could've done such a thing." They traced him up the waters To Dutch Charlie's Bend Where they found him in jail For k**in' a man "Go hang him, go hang him." Was that mother's command "And throw him in deep waters That flows through the land."