Story Behind The Song

Chugs along at the same tempo as a Mississippi rover boat. The tide can change a lot more than the depth of a river. It can change the way you feel, the way you look at life. No better demonstrated than this award winning song about love and loss.

Song Description

The lyric of this song is multiple award winner. All lyrics are original - no AI has been used for the lyrical content.

Lyrics

Sometimes me and Tommy Laidley
We'd go down the riverside
Swim out to a paddle wheeler
Where the river wasn't wide

'Cause when those mud banks shifted
They'd get stranded high and dry
Paddle wheel it was our playground
'Til the changing of the tide

Turn, turn, turn, paddle wheeler
Burn, burn, burnin' up your coal
Churn, churn, churn, muddy water
The river sure looks cold

'Til the changing of the tide
'Til the changing of the tide
Paddle wheel it was our playground
'Til the changing of the tide

Tommy Laidley moved down river
Became a paddle wheeler man
I married Tommy's brother
We farmed a little piece of land

Sometimes we'd walk down to the river
Wave at his brother passing by
Steamer lit up like a fairground
On a cold, clear winter's night

Turn, turn, turn, paddle wheeler
Burn, burnin' up your coal
Churn, churn, churn, muddy water
The river sure looks cold

One day down at the river
Steamer got caught on the bank
Paddle wheel it crushed a crewman
Who tried to free her from the sand

They couldn't drag him from the water
Until she floated high
They dragged Tommy from the water
Oh they dragged Tommy from the water
At the changing of the tide

Turn, turn, turn, paddle wheeler
Burn, burnin' up your coal
Churn, churn, churn, muddy water
The river sure looks cold

Since the changing of the tide
Since the changing of the tide
Now we don't go down
No we go don't
Go down
Down the see the riverboats
Since the changing of the tide