Set out from Saint Joe on no ordinary journey,
Headed down to New Orleans, working in the skin game.
But when I saw you, down by the muddy river,
I had to have you, so I became your prisoner.

It's been and long time and things have gotten crazy,
I never thought that it could turn out this way.
I've got the notion, I'd swim the ocean for your love,
It's not devotion, it's just this burning in my heart.

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I'm burning, burning, burning with desire,
Burning, captive of your fire.

It won't be easy telling all the folks at home,
They won't believe me and they won't like it at all.
I never thought that I could turn my back on them.
It's just this burning, it's just this burning from within.

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