Moonlight on the Mississippi

There is moonlight on the Mississippi It's a warm night I wish you were with me It's been so long So long The stars are caught in the magnolias You should see them Some turn into fireflies and fly away Fly away But moonlight maybe it's all that Can be shared by two people so far apart When you wish upon a star Wish that I was where you are But the Mississippi is a long, long river And it only flows one way St. Louis down to Natchez is a lifetime Sometimes it feels that way But love songs were never intended To be sung to somebody so far away If only you could hear my voice I would sing you home today But the Mississippi is a wide, wide river Impossible to swim across It's up to us to build the bridges Or up to us to bear the loss