Dixie moonlight
Swanee shore
Headed homebound
Just once more
To my Mississippi delta home
Southland has that grand
Garden spot
Although you believe or not
I hear those
Breeze a whispering
Come on back to me
Muddy water 'round my feet
Muddy water in the street
Just God don't shelter
Down on the delta
Muddy water in my shoes
Reeling and rocking to them
Lowdown blues
They live in ease
And comfort down there
I do declare
Been away a year today
To wander and roam
I don't care it's muddy there
But see it is my home
Got my toes turned Dixie way
Round the delta let me lay
My heart cries out
For muddy water