(Mm… hum…)
If you listen, you can hear it call
Wailerie, (wailerie…)
There is a river called the river
of no return
Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes
wild and free
Love is a traveller on the river
of no return
Swept on forever to be lost
in the stormy sea
I can hear the river call
(No return, no return, no return
Where the roarin' waters call)
I can hear my lover call
come to me
(No return, no return…)
I lost my love on the river
And forever my heart will yearn
Gone, gone forever down the river
of no return
Wailerie, (waileris,) wailerie…
He'll never return to me
(No return, no return, no return…)