[Verse 1] She has followed you from Where dark water and fortune runs When your sails come back together She will follow you wherever you go [Pre-Chorus] But still, rivers run And running water runs so slow Had a picture of my mother But even mother doesn't know [Chorus] Where big rivers flow And someday I'd like to know [Verse 2] He has followed you down 'Neath starlight in bitter towns Hard weeds cling to roads that You ride on your way back home [Pre-Chorus] But still, rivers run And running water runs so slow Had a picture of my father But even father doesn't know [Chorus] Where big rivers flow And someday I'd like to know