Palace Brothers - Ohio River Boat Song lyrics

(adapted from the traditional Scottish folk song Lach Tay Boat Song) When it's time from work to go, and in my boat I row 'Cross the muddy Ohio, when the evening light is falling And I look towards Floyd's Knobs, where the afterglories glow And I dream on two bright eyes with a merry mouth below She's my beauteous Katerina, she's my joy and sorrow too Though I know she is untrue, oh but I cannot live without her For my heart's a boat in tow and I'd give the world to know If she means to let me go as I sing the whole day through Katerina, your lovely hair has more beauty, I declare Than all the tresses there from Smoke Town to Oldham County Be it black, red, gold, or brown, let them hang to lengths below They mean not as much to me as a melting flake of snow And her dance is like a gleam of the sunlight on the stream And the screeching blue jays seem to form her name when screaming But my heart is full of woe, for last night she made me go And tears begin to flow as I sing the whole day through