The River of No Return

Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie Ford
Words & Music by Ken Darby & Lionel Newman  
From the movie of the same name  



Chart 

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 1954

 

30
 
 
   



There is a river called the river of no return   

Sometimes it's peaceful, 
and sometimes wild and free!     
Love is  a  trav'ler on the river of no return 

Swept on forever   to be lost in a stor - my sea         
Wail-a-ree I can hear the river call 
(no return, no return)  
Where the roarin' waters fall       
Wail-a-ree I can hear my lover call,
"Come to me"  

love on the  river, and forever my heart will yearn
Gone, gone forever down the river of no re - turn 
Wail-a-ree     wail-a-ree 
You'll never re - turn to me! 
(no return, no return, no return)