Lyrics:

There ain't no more cane on this Brazos
They done ground it all in molasses

You should have been on the river in nineteen and four
You could have found a dead man at every turn row

You should have been on the river in nineteen ten
They were rolling the women like they was driving the men

Now, captain, don't you do me like you done poor Shine
You done worked that bully 'til he been stone blind

Rise up, dead man, help me drive my row
Rise up, dead man, help me drive my row

There's some on the building, and there's some on the farm
And there's some in the graveyard, and there's some goin' home

Because there ain't no more cane on this Brazos
They done ground it all in molasses

And there ain't no more cane on this Brazos
They done ground it all in molasses