Muddy Water

[Verse 1]
It's been a part of me since I was in my bare feet
Rope swing two knots high
Just a couple other kids and I
Cooling off the summertime
Wading in my church clothes, preacher saying, "Hold your nose"
Momma on the riverbank crying
Right after I got baptized
I stuck around and I cast a line
Now we'd sneak off in the middle of the night
Making night moves where the catfish bites
Skipping rocks on it, sit and talk on it
We drank so much that we could walk on it

[Chorus]
It's all I've ever known
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear God made
Muddy water for me
I wouldn't know it standing on thе shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swеar that God made
Muddy water for me

[Verse 2]
In a world of "I don't knows" I can find my way home
Where the red dirt mixes with rain
'Cause it's only gonna flow one way
Like the blood running through my veins
Now I've seen the ocean from a hotel room
It's a little too salty, a little too blue for me
Now all I need
Is to drift away down some no name stream

[Chorus]
It's all I've ever known
And it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear God made
Muddy water for me
I wouldn't know it standing on the shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

[Bridge]
Oh, won't you take me on down to the muddy water

[Chorus]
It's all I've ever known
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me
I wouldn't know it standing on the shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

[Outro]
One day when I get called home
There'll be a path to the creek
'Cause I swear God made
Muddy water for me