OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER
Circle left
*The day the river freezes, is the day it won't seem fair
They'll come to get the river lady
I don't think they'll care
Left allemande your corner, turn your partner right
Men star left around the ring
Turn your partner by the right and you go left allemande
Clap your hands and promenade
A little goodbye, a little I'll do what I must do
FIGURE
Heads (Sides) flutter wheel, sweep 1/4 more
Centers pass thru, do a right and left thru
Slide thru, load the boat
Water turns cold, gets to freezin'
Before you know the old girl's easin'
Swing your girl, and promenade her home
A little goodbye a little I'll do what I must do
ALTERNATE LYRICS
*I know they'll scrape her paint off in their same old foolish ways
Now the people see the river but the old ship's gone away
*I know I will remember When I cannot hear that horn
That would roll up by the mountains, as she took us through the storm
*I know they've got to take her, but I can't say I approve
'Cause she won so many battles, that I hate to see her lose