When I was a little girl I had a rag doll Only doll I've ever owned Now I love you just the way I loved that rag doll But only now my love has grown And it gets stronger In every way And it gets deeper Let me say And it gets higher Day by day And do I love you? My oh my Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby When you were a young boy Did you have a puppy That always followed you around? Well I'm gonna be As faithful as that puppy No I'll never let you down 'Cause it grows stronger Like a river flows And it gets bigger baby And heaven knows And it gets sweeter baby As it grows And do I love you? My oh my Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby baby I love you baby Like a flower loves the spring And I love you baby Like a robin loves to sing And I love you baby Like a school boy loves his pet And I love you baby River deep - mountain high Baby baby baby oh baby oh oooh Do I love you? My oh my oh Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby baby
When I was a little girl I had a rag doll Only doll I've ever owned Now I love you just the way I loved that rag doll But only now my love has grown And it gets stronger In every way And it gets deeper Let me say And it gets higher Day by day And do I love you? My oh my Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby When you were a young boy Did you have a puppy That always followed you around? Well I'm gonna be As faithful as that puppy No I'll never let you down 'Cause it grows stronger Like a river flows And it gets bigger baby And heaven knows And it gets sweeter baby As it grows And do I love you? My oh my Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby baby I love you baby Like a flower loves the spring And I love you baby Like a robin loves to sing And I love you baby Like a school boy loves his pet And I love you baby River deep - mountain high Baby baby baby oh baby oh oooh Do I love you? My oh my oh Yeah river deep - mountain high Yeah yeah yeah If I lost you would I cry? Oh how I love you baby Baby baby baby
O lançamento de “River Deep – Mountain High” em 1966 impulsionou a popularidade de Ike & Tina Turner na Europa, culminando em uma turnê pelo Reino Unido ao lado dos Rolling Stones.
Apesar de não ter sido mencionado nenhum prêmio específico para a faixa, ela foi uma das duas canções do duo que mais tarde seriam incluídas no Grammy Hall of Fame.
A gravação de “River Deep – Mountain High” marcou um ponto de virada na carreira da dupla, antecedendo suas reinterpretções soul de sucessos do rock, como “Come Together” e “Honky Tonk Woman”.
A canção fez parte do álbum que o Pitchfork listou entre os melhores de sua era, destacando sua relevância crítica além do sucesso comercial.
O sucesso da música contribuiu para que o duo fosse reconhecido como um dos “20 Greatest Duos of All Time” pela revista Rolling Stone.
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