[Verse 1] The ferryman is ninety and he will not teach his son he says the river changes and you cannot write it down [Pre-Chorus] He has taken me across four thousand times or more [Chorus] And the water does not know us and it carries us across and the water does not know us and it has never let us go carry me across [Verse 2] There is a bridge now, twelve miles up and it takes eleven minutes and the ones who use it get there first and they do not get this [Pre-Chorus] He has taken me across four thousand times or more [Chorus] And the water does not know us and it carries us across and the water does not know us and it has never let us go carry me across [Bridge] When he goes, the boat goes and the crossing becomes a story and I will tell it badly to somebody who will not believe it
