Oh Shenandoah,
I hear you calling,
I'm bound away,
And hear your rolling rivers.

Oh Shenandoah,
I love your daughter,
Away, you rolling river.
For her I'd cross
Your roaming waters,

The chief disdained the trader's dollars,
Away you rolling river, 
My daughter never you shall follow,
Bound away, cross the wide Missouri.

Oh Shenandoah,
'Tis seven years since last I've seen you,
Away, you rolling river,
I long to hear you,

Oh Shenandoah,
Just to be near you,
Far away, far away,
Across the wide Missouri.