High and dry in the long hot day   Lost and lonely 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