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Artist: Marilyn Monroe
Canonical path: /marilyn-monroe/the-river-of-no-return
Related lyric paths: 6
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The River Of No Return
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The River Of No Return
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There is a river called THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free!
Love is a trav'ler on THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea
Wail-a-ree I can hear the river call [ 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 and for ever my heart will yearn
Gone gone for ever down THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
Wail-a-ree wail-a-re-e-ee
She'll/He'll never return to me! [ no return, no return, noreturn ]
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Marilyn Monroe performs "The River Of No Return", and this lyric page sits inside the Marilyn Monroe catalog on LyroVerse.
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