Moody river-artist: pat boone from "pat boone's greatest hits"-mca: mcac 10085-peak billboard position # 1 in 1961-words and music by gary d. bruce(moody river, moody river)chorusmoody river, more deadly than the vainest knifemoody river, your muddy water took my baby's lifelast saturday evenin' came to the old oak treeit stands beside the river where you were to meet meon the ground your glove i foundwith a note addressed to meit read "dear love, i've done you wrong""now i must set you free""no longer can i live with this hurt and this sin""i just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend"chorusi looked into the muddy water and what could i see?i saw a lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at metears in his eyes and a prayer on his lipsand the glove of his lost love at his fingertipschorustranscribed by robin hoodthese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.