High and dry in the long hot day

Lost and lonely in every way

Got the flats all around me sky up above

I need a little water of love



I've been too long lonely and my heart feels pain

Crying out for some soothing rain

I believe I have taken enough

I need a little water of love



Water of love deep in the ground

No water here to be found

Some day baby when the river runs free

It'll carry that water of love to me



There's a bird up in a tree sitting up high

Waiting for me to die

If I don't get some water soon

I'll be dead and gone in the afternoon



Once I had a woman I could call my own

Once I had a woman now my woman is gone

Once there was a river now there's a stone

You know it's evil when you're living alone