Intro: Mmm. If you listen, you can hear it call : wail-a-ree ! (wail-a-ree) There is a river called The River Of No Return; sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free! Love is a trav'ler on The River Of No Return, swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea. (Wail-a-ree) I can hear the river call (no return, no return) No return, no return (wail-a-ree). I can hear my lover call, "Come to me." (no return, no return) I lost my love on the river and forever my heart will yearn, Gone, gone forever down The River Of No Return. Wail a ree (wail-a-ree-ee), wail-a-ree. He'll never return to me! (no return, no return)