Don’t sigh a sigh for me
Don’t ever cry for me
This is goodbye from me
I know we’re through, I’m losing you

Love sang its song for me
Then things went wrong for me
Nights are too long for me
Because I’m losing you

Our love and our devotion
Were deep as any ocean
Then one day like the tide you began to change
And you became a perfect stranger

Someone is holding you
Sharing the lips I knew
I can’t believe it’s true
That I am losing you

I can’t believe it’s true
That I am losing you

You can send me pretty flowers, you can send me valentines
Send me letters every day, but it won't pay
Leap to my desire, nothing else will do
It's goodbye and so long to you

You can hang around and love me, you can hang your head and cry
Hang my picture on the wall, but I won't fall
Kiss me when you're dreaming, no good that will do
It's goodbye and so long to you

You can give me your affection, you can give all your love
Give me all the things I crave, but I'll be brave
All the things you offer, make me sad and blue
It's goodbye and so long to you

You can hang around and love me, you can hang your head and cry
Hang my picture on the wall, but I won't fall
Kiss me when you're dreaming, no good that will do
It's goodbye and so long to you

You can call my your own darling, you can call me what you may
Call me on the telephone, I won't be home
Keep your old love letters, I'm all through with you
It's goodbye and so long to you

We came to you big city from our little country town
And every step he takes with you is down
And you're as cold and heartless as your chilling winds that blow
Before you freeze his heart please let him go

Windy City you're holding my baby
With your bright lights and your avenues so wild
Windy City turn loose of my baby
If you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind

At night I walk your sidewalks and look in every bar
I love him even though he's gone too far
Your swinging doors stay open just to keep him from my side
And I'm on your lonely streets again tonight

Windy City you're holding my baby
With your bright lights and your avenues so wild
Windy City turn loose of my baby
And if you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind
If you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
And the sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you

I know you won't believe these things I tell you
I know you won't believe
Your heart has been forewarned all men will lie to you
And your mind cannot conceive
Now all depends on what I say to you
And on your doubting me
So I've prepared these statements far from true
Take heed and disbelieve

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
The sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
And the sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you
And I never cared for you
And I never cared for you

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away somewhere
River, I love you, don't you care

Well if you're on the run
Winding some place just tryin' to find the sun
Whether the sunshine, whether the rain
River, I love you just the same

But sometimes in a time of trouble
When you're out of hand and your muddy bubbles
Roll across my floor
Carryin' away the things I treasure
Hell there ain't no way to measure
Why I love you more than I did the day before

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away from me
River, I've never seen the sea

But sometimes in a time of trouble
When you're out of hand and your muddy bubbles
Roll across my floor
Carryin' away the things I treasure
Hell there ain't ain't no way to measure
Why I love you more than I did the day before

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away from me
River, I've never seen the sea

My life on the road, it’s been hard on me and you
Every time we say goodbye, it gets harder to do
But when I'm far away somewhere alone and the missin' you starts
All I’ve got to do is picture you and I can feel you in my heart

So dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
Dream of me and I'll be dreaming of you

I've been a lot of places, but there's no place like home
And I'm on my way back to you every minute that I'm gone
So when you get to feelin' lonely just remember we won't always be apart
Close your eyes and think of me and you can feel me in your heart

So dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
Dream of me and I'll be dreaming of you

Dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
Dream of me and I'll be dreaming of you

It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory
And keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother cause she turned and you were gone
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

You dip your cup of soup back from a gurgling, crackling cauldron in some train yard
Your beard a roughened coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across your face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my memories
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No use in holding other hands
For I'd be holding only emptiness
No use in kissing other lips
For I'd be thinking just of your caress

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

No other voice can say the words
My heart must hear to ever sing again
The words you used to whisper low
No other love can ever bring again

All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don't hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart

All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear
And I know my life will never be the same
While my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame

Into each life a love is born for one and one alone dear
The love I chose was surely not for me
All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear
And I know our love was never meant to be

All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear
And I know my life will never be the same
While my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame

But still my heart cries out for you and you alone my darling
And fates will never, ever let you go
But my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone dear
And my better judgment tells me to say no

All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear
And I know my life will never be the same
While my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame

You give your hand to me and then you say hello
And I can hardly speak my heart is beating so
And anyone could tell you think you know me well
But you don't know me

No, you don't know the one who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips and longs to hold you tight
To you I'm just a friend that's all I've ever been
But you don't know me

For I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart ached with the love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance you might have loved me too

You give your hand to me and then you say goodbye
You watch me walk away beside my lucky guy
To never, never know the one who loves you so
No, you don't know me

For I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart ached with the love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance you might have loved me too

You give your hand to me and then you say goodbye
You watch me walk away beside my lucky guy
To never, never know the one who loves you so
No, you don't know me

We came to you big city from our little country town
And every step he takes with you is down
And you're as cold and heartless as your chilling winds that blow
Before you freeze his heart please let him go

Windy City you're holding my baby
With your bright lights and your avenues so wild
Windy City turn loose of my baby
If you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind

At night I walk your sidewalks and look in every bar
I love him even though he's gone too far
Your swinging doors stay open just to keep him from my side
And I'm on your lonely streets again tonight

Windy City you're holding my baby
With your bright lights and your avenues so wild
Windy City turn loose of my baby
And if you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind
If you don't give him back I’ll lose my mind

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away somewhere
River, I love you, don't you care

Well if you're on the run
Winding some place just tryin' to find the sun
Whether the sunshine, whether the rain
River, I love you just the same

But sometimes in a time of trouble
When you're out of hand and your muddy bubbles
Roll across my floor
Carryin' away the things I treasure
Hell there ain't no way to measure
Why I love you more than I did the day before

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away from me
River, I've never seen the sea

But sometimes in a time of trouble
When you're out of hand and your muddy bubbles
Roll across my floor
Carryin' away the things I treasure
Hell there ain't ain't no way to measure
Why I love you more than I did the day before

River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long, white train
Winding your way away from me
River, I've never seen the sea

Don’t sigh a sigh for me
Don’t ever cry for me
This is goodbye from me
I know we’re through, I’m losing you

Love sang its song for me
Then things went wrong for me
Nights are too long for me
Because I’m losing you

Our love and our devotion
Were deep as any ocean
Then one day like the tide you began to change
And you became a perfect stranger

Someone is holding you
Sharing the lips I knew
I can’t believe it’s true
That I am losing you

I can’t believe it’s true
That I am losing you

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
And the sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you

I know you won't believe these things I tell you
I know you won't believe
Your heart has been forewarned all men will lie to you
And your mind cannot conceive
Now all depends on what I say to you
And on your doubting me
So I've prepared these statements far from true
Take heed and disbelieve

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
The sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all
And the sky was never blue
The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall
And I never cared for you
And I never cared for you
And I never cared for you