[Verse 1] It took the coat you left at the ford it took the hat, it took the year it took the argument entire and did not leave a word of it [Pre-Chorus] And it put none of it back and it asked nobody first [Chorus] What the river carried, the river keeps what the river carried is gone what the river carried, the river keeps and it carried us along what the river carried [Verse 2] It took the mill, it took the road it took the name the town had first and in return it gave the field the only soil that ever grew [Pre-Chorus] And it put none of it back and it asked nobody first [Chorus] What the river carried, the river keeps what the river carried is gone what the river carried, the river keeps and it carried us along what the river carried [Bridge] I have stopped going down to look there is nothing down there of mine and still I know its voice at night the way you know a room
