"...There's a young girl looking for a brighter fate
Than pouring coffee for the truckers off the interstate
Cause that's the way it goes...yeah...yeah
Wants more of a living than a trailer house
With an adolescent husband for a drunken spouse
Cause that's the way it goes...yeah...yeah
Now her lips are cracked from the burning sun
And she wants to flee but her legs won't run
Sometimes she crys when the day is done
Take me down Where the Water's Deep
Down to the river where the water's sweet
My jug's bone dry from the desert heat
I need to fill it up again..."
Than pouring coffee for the truckers off the interstate
Cause that's the way it goes...yeah...yeah
Wants more of a living than a trailer house
With an adolescent husband for a drunken spouse
Cause that's the way it goes...yeah...yeah
Now her lips are cracked from the burning sun
And she wants to flee but her legs won't run
Sometimes she crys when the day is done
Take me down Where the Water's Deep
Down to the river where the water's sweet
My jug's bone dry from the desert heat
I need to fill it up again..."