If you listen you can hear it call, Wailaree... (Waliaree!)
There is a river called 'The River of No Return'
Sometimes it's peaceful & sometimes wild & free!
Love is a traveler on the River of No Return
Swept on forever to be lost in the stormy sea (Wailaree)
I can hear the river call (no return, no return)
No return, no return
(Where the roarin' waters fall), (Wail-a-ree)
I can hear my lover call
"Come to me" (no return, no return)
I lost my love on the river & forever my heart will yearn
Gone, gone forever down the River of No Return
Wail-a-ree (Wail-a-ree), wail-a-ree
He'll never return to me! (no return, no return, no return)