Muddy Water

It's been a part of me since I was in my bare feet
Rope swing two knots high
Just a couple other kids and I
Cooling off the summertime

A-wading in my church clothes, preacher saying, "Hold your nose"
Mama on the riverbank crying
Right after I got baptized
I stuck around and I cast a line

Now we'd sneak off in the middle of the night
Making night moves where the catfish bites
Skipping rocks on it, sit and talk on it
We drank so much that we could walk on it

It's all I've ever known
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear God made
Muddy water for me

I wouldn't know it standing on the shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

In a world of I-don't-knows, I can find my way home
Where the red dirt mixes with rain
'Cause it's only gonna flow one way
Like the blood running through my veins

Now I've seen the ocean from a hotel room
It's a little too salty, a little too blue for me
Now all I need
Is to drift away down some no name stream

It's all I've ever known
And it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear God made
Muddy water for me

I wouldn't know it standing on the shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

Oh, won't you take me on down to the muddy water?

It's all I've ever known
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

I wouldn't know it standing on the shore
But it's holy underneath
And I swear that God made
Muddy water for me

That one day when I get called home
Be a path up to the creek
'Cause I swear God made
Muddy water for me