| Songwriters: | |
| MCCOLL I met my girl at | |
| Woolwich Pier | |
| Beneath the big cranes standing | |
| And oh, the love | |
| I felt for her | |
| It passed all understanding | |
| Took her sailing on the river | |
| Flow sweet river, flow | |
| London town was mine to give her | |
| Sweet Thames flow softly | |
| Made the Thames into a crown | |
| Flow sweet river, flow | |
| Made a brooch of | |
| Silver town | |
| Sweet Thames flow softly | |
| At London | |
| Yard I held her hand | |
| At Blackwall | |
| Point I faced her | |
| At the Isle of | |
| Dogs I kissed her mouth | |
| And tenderly embraced her | |
| Heard the bells of | |
| Greenwich ringing, | |
| Flow . . . | |
| All the time | |
| I had was singing, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . | |
| Lighthouse | |
| Reach I gave her there, | |
| Flow . . . | |
| As a ribbon for her hair, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . | |
| From Putney | |
| Bridge to | |
| Nine Elms | |
| Reach We cheek to cheek were dancing | |
| Her necklace made of | |
| London Bridge | |
| Her beauty was enhancing | |
| Kissed her once again at | |
| Wapping, Flow . . . | |
| After that there was no stopping, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . | |
| Gave her Hampton | |
| Court to twist, | |
| Flow . . . | |
| Into a bracelet for her wrist, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . | |
| But now alas the tide has changed | |
| My love she has gone from me | |
| And winter's frost has touched my heart | |
| And put a blight upon me | |
| Creeping fog is on the river, | |
| Flow . . . | |
| Sun and moon and stars gone with her, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . | |
| Swift the | |
| Thames runs to the sea, | |
| Flow . . . | |
| Bearing ships and part of me, | |
| Sweet Thames . . . |