Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter   Way-aye, you rolling river   I'll take her 'cross yon rolling water   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      The Chief disdained the trader's dollars,   Way-aye, you rolling river   My daughter you shall never follow   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      For seven years I courted Sally,   Way-aye, you rolling river   For seven more I longed to have her   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      She said she would not be my lover   Way-aye, you rolling river   Because I was a tarry sailor   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      At last there came a Yankee skipper   Way-aye, you rolling river   He winked his eye, and he tipped his flipper   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      He sold the Chief that fire-water   Way-aye, you rolling river   And 'cross the river he stole his daughter   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!      Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter   Way-aye, you rolling river   I'll take her 'cross yon rolling water   A way - we're bound away   'Cross the wide Missouri!