[06:16.00]American Rivers - Tom Russell
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[06:16.00]Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
[06:16.00]Yeah, yeah yeah
[06:16.00]It’s all been ground down to molasses
[06:16.00]Yeah yeah yeah
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[06:16.00]I saw a red iron sunsets - From a rust iron bridge
[06:16.00]In the Indian country –Of the mockingbird kid
[06:16.00]I saw the moon in a boxcar - Being carried as freight
[06:16.00]Through 62 winters - Through 48 states
[06:16.00]In an old Chinese graveyard - I slept in the weeds
[06:16.00]When a song and a story - Were all a kid needs
[06:16.00]Hear the rhymes and the rattles - Of those runaway trains
[06:16.00]And the songs of the cowboy - And the sound of the rain
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[06:16.00]And it’s mom I miss you
[06:16.00]I woke up and screamed
[06:16.00]American rivers - Roll deep through my dreams
[06:16.00]Colorado, Yeah Alleghany, Shenandoah, Susquehanny
[06:16.00]And the Wabash and the Hudson and the brave Rio Grande
[06:16.00]I was a kid there asleep in the sandy old water
[06:16.00]Yeah old water
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[06:16.00]We named ‘em for Indians - Our guilt to forsake
[06:16.00]The Delaware the Blackfoot - The Flathead the Snake
[06:16.00]Now they roll past casinos _ And old hamburger stands
[06:16.00]They’re all waving farewell - To the kid on the lamb
[06:16.00]With their Jig sawed old arteries - So clogged and defiled
[06:16.00]No open heart miracle - Is gonna turn ’em back wild
[06:16.00]Past towns gone to bankers – Past fields gone to seed
[06:16.00]All cut up and carved out - So divided by greed
[06:16.00]And old grandfather catfish - With his whiskers so long
[06:16.00]And his life in a struggle - Cuz the oxygen’s gone
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[06:16.00]Oh mom I miss you
[06:16.00]I woke up and screamed
[06:16.00]These American rivers - They poison my dreams
[06:16.00]Colorado, Alleghany, Shenandoah, Susquehanny
[06:16.00]And the Wabash and the Hudson and the brave Rio Grande
[06:16.00]I was a kid there I was asleep in the sandy old water
[06:16.00]Yeah old water