( G )      C                      Am         F           G
    If you listen you can hear it call, Wailaree...(Waliaree!)


C           Am                F             G
 There is a river called 'The River of No Return'
C               Am           F              G
 Sometimes it's peaceful & sometimes wild & free!
C          Am              F             G          
 Love is a traveler on the River of No Return
C            Am         F           G      C
 Swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea (Wailaree)


      C                         Am
I can hear the river call (no return, no return)

           F                              G     
        No return, no return              
(Where the roarin' waters fall),  (Wail-a-ree)


      F                           
I can hear my lover call 
         G
"Come to me" (no return, no return)


( G )         C           Am         F                  G
    I lost my love on the river & forever my heart will yearn
C             Am            F        G    C
Gone, gone forever down the River of No Return
C                               F  C
Wail-a-ree (Wail-a-ree), wail-a-ree
       F       G       C
 He'll never return to me! (no return, no return, no return)