River Lost

Winding' down Route fifty five, seemed to be asleep
Change your name in Wardensville, playin' hide and seek
Wandrin' around like a drunken man, who goes from town to town
Never walks a straight line
Never settles down

Children of the river bank, when they went to bed
Dream about the caverns, wonderin' where they led

Sons of Tuscarora and the sons of mountaineers
They disappeared into the earth, left behind their tears

Sparkling cool in the summertime, grasses swing and sway
The otter and the bobcat, all meet you on your way
Do you know something no one knows? What will come to be
River Lost, what do you see? River Lost, where can you be

Highways cut the land in two, the native man is gone
Windmills on the ridge do work the miners once had done
Do you see the lakes the men have made? That swallowed up my home
Do your lost ears even listen? As the changes come along

Sparkling cool in the summertime, grasses swing and sway
The otter and the bobcat, all meet you on your way
Do you know something no one knows? What will come to be
River Lost, what do you see? River Lost, where can you be

Sparkling cool in the summertime, grasses swing and sway
The otter and the bobcat, all meet you on their way
Do you know something no one knows? What will come to be
River Lost, what do you see? River Lost, what do you see? River Lost,
where can you be?