My Ida Blue, I love you, hi-dee-ho,
I repeat in the heat and the snow,
When you're away I am gray and alone,
Oh Ida Blue, I love you, Ida Blue.
Oh, Ida say you'll be gay on the morn,
That my boat comes to dock on the shore,
Then Ida stay and be mine evermore,
My Ida Blue, I love you, Ida Blue.
I'm through changing my name,
And running from the nothing in the grain,
The crowd was coming in before,
the doubt was blowing out between the shade.
Oh Ida Blue, hi-dee-ho, Ida Blue,
My heart strings are harking to you,
And as for me, I'd agree, Ida Blue,
For I love you Ida Blue, Ida Blue.
And we'll go straight through the gate on the shore,
We'll take the rope from the post and be gone,
And I will sing to the waves and the dawn,
That I love you Ida Blue, Ida Blue.