| They found her body in the water | 
| Floating face down in the river | 
| The one who found her called the doctor | 
| Or so they say | 
| Not a scratch, she wasn’t bleeding | 
| Sixteen years old, died a virgin | 
| Unlucky lover, she did herself in | 
| Or so they say | 
| Rescue Annie from the river | 
| With every kiss she is delivered | 
| From the depths and we forgive her | 
| For falling in | 
| They say the doctor could have saved her | 
| If he’d come a little sooner | 
| It broke his heart to know he’d lost her | 
| To the world | 
| And though he couldn’t rescue Annie | 
| He resolved to tell her story | 
| He used her face to make a body | 
| To teach the world | 
| Rescue Annie from the river | 
| With every kiss she is delivered | 
| From the depths and we forgive her | 
| For falling in | 
| In darkened storage rooms of hospitals | 
| Across the world she waits | 
| For the missing kiss that damned her to her fate | 
| Annie sinks down to the bottom | 
| The one who spurned her is forgotten | 
| While she is cherished by a million pairs of lips | 
| Rescue Annie from the river | 
| Help her breathe, try to forgive her | 
| Press her chest, always remember | 
| That in her heart we find our harbor | 
| And every year, come early summer | 
| He lingers down there by the river | 
| Rescue Annie from the river | 
| In life, her lonely lips were never | 
| Loved; | 
| in death, caressed forever | 
| We all fell in |