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