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SHINING RIVER

(Eric Bogle)

Outside my door when I was young
There flowed a shining river
Gleaming in the summer sun
It used to shine like silver
And the banks were lined with willow trees
And tall green waving rushes
And songbirds sang in summer breeze
And nested in the bushes

CHORUS:
Don't you think it's time
We got together
To save our shining river
It will soon be gone forever
Oh don't you think it's time, time, time

The willow trees have long since gone
The birds are getting fewer
And where my river used to run
There's jus an open sewer
And the banks are lined with factories
Great towers of bricks and mortar
And now there's smoke in summer breeze
And poison in the water

And where the silver gum did stand
Where bloomed the yellow wattle
Now there's only old tin cans
And piles of broken bottles
And the banks are lined with mud and silt
The river's thick with slime
And you ask me who must bear the guilt
When the fault is yours and mine

Sung by Eric Bogle on 'DOWN UNDER' (1981)

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submitted by: EB