[ti:Wild Ripplin' Water (Album Version)]
[ar:Michael Martin Murphey]
[al:Cowboy Songs]
[00:02.77]As I was out walkin' and ramblin' one day
[00:07.26]I spied a fair couple a-comin' my way
[00:12.24]One was a lady, as fair as could be
[00:16.79]And the other was a cowboy, and a brave one was he
[00:22.47]He said "Where are you goin', my pretty fair maid?"
[00:27.25]"Just down by the river, just down by the shade
[00:31.63]Just down by the river, just down by the spring
[00:36.60]To see the wild ripplin' waters and hear the nightingale sing"
[00:41.67]
[00:42.88]Well they hadn't been there but an hour or so
[00:47.44]'Til he drew from his satchel a fiddle and bow
[00:52.49]He tuned his old fiddle all on the high string
[00:57.01]And he played this tune over and over again
[01:03.20]Then said the cowboy "I should have been gone"
[01:07.98]"No, no", said the pretty maid. "Just play one more song
[01:12.98]I'd rather hear the fiddle just played on one string
[01:17.48]Than see the wild ripplin' waters and hear the nightingale sing"