There is a river called THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free!

Love is a trav'ler on THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea

Wail-a-ree I can hear the river call [ no return, no return ]

Where the roarin' waters fall wail-a-ree

I can hear my lover call come to me [ no return, no return ]

I lost my love on the river and for ever my heart will yearn

Gone gone for ever down THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

Wail-a-ree wail-a-re-e-ee

She'll/He'll never return to me! [ no return, no return, no return ]