Over The Waterfall

I thought I knew what I was doing I was wrong Mistakes I've made and lived to tell I tell them in a song I knew a river wide and deep Her banks were very tall At one end was a mountain stream The other was a waterfall, boys The other was a waterfall I asked the old man by the river He did not recall The last attempt to ride a barrel Over the waterfall The ferry boatman, he did tell me That the chance was very small None survived who went alive Over the waterfall, boys Over the waterfall So I built myself an oaken barrel And inside I did crawl I broke the record but I broke my back Going over the waterfall And it's been my luck to live to tell The only tale I can It don't hurt you when you fall Only when you land, boys Only when you land