Louise Taylor - Deep Dark River lyrics

He can feel her skeleton beneath her skin As the sun plays on the mountain And her dress lies torn on the muddy banks Of the deep dark river flowing in his veins And Daddy's hammering the tar paper shack And Momma hangs her dish rag on the line swinging slack And the flies will buzz round the old pig sty There's a deep dark river running through his mind Momma fetch the preacher, Daddy get your gun Sister run off with your snake-eyed son And he laid her in the holler and he left her to die With a deep dark river flowing from her thigh With a deep dark river flowing from her thigh