On The Ohio

Love ain't been kind to a man like me
28 going on 43
It took my heart, tore it apart, and it turned me into a sinner

Celia, I loved her so
I thought someday we'd build a home
And build a life down by the banks of the Ohio River

So I got down, I got down, I got down
On one knee
I said, "Celia, Celia
Won't you mine forever be?"

But there ain't no rest on the Ohio
The water's wide and the current's cold
And the ghosts of the past have a way of coming back
I still hear her cry out in the night
I did the deed and I paid the price
When I lost the only love I'd ever known
Ain't no rest no rest on the Ohio

Lord I ain't a violent man
But I dragged her through that bank of sand
And said "Who are you to refuse my love?"

I got down, I got down
And I pushed that girl in
I said "Celia, Celia
It's time you learned to sink or swim"

Cause there ain't no rest on the Ohio
The water's wide and the current's cold
And the ghosts of the past have a way of coming back
I still hear her cry out in the night
I did the deed and I paid the price
When I lost the only love I'd ever known
Ain't no rest no rest on the Ohio

Celia, you didn't have to die
Oh Celia, if only you'd been mine
Celia, in no other's arms entwined
But now you're lying in the bed of the river like a lover
Underneath the muddy water
And you're never ever ever gonna find there is ever any

Rest on the Ohio
The ghosts of the past have a way of coming back
I still hear her cry out in the night
I did the deed and I paid the price
When I lost the only love I'd ever known
Ain't no rest no rest no rest on the Ohio