When it's time from work to go And in my boat I row 'Cross the muddy Ohio When the evening light is falling And I look towards Floyd's Knobs Where the afterglories glow And I dream on two bright eyes To the merry mouth below She's my beauteous Catarina She's my joy and sorrow too And I know she is untrue Oh, but I cannot live without her For my heart's a boat in tow And I'd give the world to know If she means to let me go As I sing the whole day through
♪ Catarina your lovely hair Has more beauty, I declare From all the tresses there From Smoketown to Oldham County Be they black, red, gold or brown Let them hang from lengths below They mean not as much to me As a melting flake of snow And her dance is like the beam Of the sunlight on the seam And the screeching bluejays seem To form her name while screaming For my heart is full of woe For last night she made me go And the tears began to flow As I sang the whole day through ♪ When it's time from work to go And in my boat I row 'Cross the muddy Ohio When the evening light is falling And I look towards Floyd's Knobs Where the afterglories glow And I dream on two bright eyes To the merry mouth below She's my beauteous Catarina She's my joy and sorrow too And I know she is untrue Oh, but I cannot live without her For my heart's a boat in tow And I'd give the world to know If she means to let me go As I sing the whole day through