Everyone remembered, seeing that bride and groom It was 1929, they were on their honeymoon A steamboat horn was blowing as they waved goodbye to shore No one knows what happened next when he closed that cabin door But they showed up for dinner, in the grand ballroom that night Everyone could tell, they've been in a fight She was still wearing that diamond ring with the sapphires on the side With a rip in her dress, and her hair all a mess, the truth is hard to find 'Cause they couldn't find one drop of blood As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud From hell on earth, down to New Orleans It was way too late to turn around now They searched every way from stern to bow When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen Delta Queen The moon lit up the water, a chill was in the air When they took that groom back to his room and tied him to a chair The witness said she saw him holding her right by the rail Was she napping? Was she crying? Were they kissing? Were they fighting? Well, you just couldn't tell And they couldn't find one drop of blood As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud From hell on earth, down to New Orleans It was way too late to turn around now They searched every way from stern to bow When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen Delta Queen They never found her body, they threw him in the pen Well at a pawn shop in Saint Louis, a young couple walked in The girl was looking through the glass at all those diamonds rings And nobody knows that the one she chose would set that prisoner free That's why they couldn't find one drop of blood As the paddle wheel pushed that Mississippi mud From hell on earth, down to New Orleans It was way too late to turn around now They searched every way from stern to bow When she disappeared, on the Delta Queen On the Delta Queen Delta Queen