3:12
Doc Watson, 1964
traditional
A fatalistic low and slow folk gospel. The narrator doesn't care how much it rains. There's a hit of absurd humor when he says his gal reminds him of a water fowl when it rains, but mostly the song seems bleak. "Now I'm gonna say goodbye, and if I sink, just let me die / 'Cause I got them deep river blues." This song is a little-changed update of a 1933 song sung by the Delmore Brothers called "Big River Blues."