(Original by John Hiatt)      My baby's gone and I don't know why   She let out this morning   like a rusty shot in a hollow sky   Left me without warning   sooner than the dogs could bark   and faster than the sun rose   Down to the banks in an old mule car   she took a flatboat across the shallow   CHORUS:   Left me in my tears to drown   she left a baby daughter   Now the water's wide and deep and brown   She's crossing muddy waters   Tobacco standing in the fields   be rotten come November   And a bitter heart will not reveal   a spring that love remembers   When that sweet brown girl of mine her black eyes are ravens   We broke the bread and drank the wine   from a jug that she'd been saving   REPEAT CHORUS   Baby's crying and the daylight's gone   That big oak tree is groaning   In rush of wind and river of song   I can hear my sweetheart moaning   Crying for her baby child   or crying for her husband   Crying for that river's wild   to take her from her loved ones   REPEAT CHORUS TWICE