Johnny Cash - If It Wasn’t For The Wabash River lyrics

Fish aren't biting but I don't
Really care and don't hurry
Like that Wabash River there I'd be drinking
Or laying dead somewhere if it
Wasn't for the Wabash River
If it wasn't for the Wabash River and this
Willow tree and my pole and a line
I'd be going crazy as an Indiana cyclone
Drowning memories of her and crying, crying
Crying
If it wasn't for the Wabash River I'd
Be going out off my mind

It's so peaceful sitting here
Beneath my tree, lord I need her
Like she often needed me
Life isn't worth it
Just as far as I can see if
It wasn't for the Wabash River
If it wasn't for the Wabash River

Look out man alive fifty-five miles an hour
They want us to go on this Interstate
And you go fifty-five and you get run over
By a truck so what do you do

Man I must be nuts
I just got back from California
All that time out there chasing after her

Well she must be worth a round trip

Worth it
You know there was a time I'd run naked
Through the snow just to touch that woman

But you wouldn't now ha

Where we're at anyway

I don't know, I believe
That's the Platte River
You want to go fishing again

I had enough fishing

It's still a long way to California you know

You know, i just might change my mind
Before we get there

You sound like you got no control
Over whether you go or not

That's just it
What is it about a woman that makes
Such a dummy out of a man
She was wild even when she was loving me, man
I knew tomorrow it'd likely be somebody
Else she would be with
But you know just that idea that the next
Day she could be loving me again
That's what kept me on her tail
Chasing after all the time
She really was poison
But I guess it was good poison
Look at me here I go again, hoping for
Another dose of that sweet poison she had
Man did you ever have a woman like that

Yeah, I guess I have

You know what I mean

My woman's a lady

A lady

A lady will give you the
Best loving you ever had
I don't care what you had in California but
Even a lady's love can burn out though
But what I mean is a good
Woman a kind, sweet, considerate
Understanding woman
That likes to be treated like she treats you
And if that isn't bull
The better she gives love the
More she wants to give
I know what I'm talking about, a lady
Loving's better is a loving
Heart's going to give
Another and a lady loves to give
Mine did for a little while