The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77932   Message #1396035
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Feb-05 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
Subject: RE: BS: Ring Around the Facts - Create-a-History
Well, it's not generally known, but originally the song goes:

I've sailed the Wild River for many a year
And I've fished here for salmon where the water was clear
Now they're building a dam to hold the water in store
And I never will sail the Wild River no more.

cho: And it's no, no, never,
No no never no more,
Will I sail the Wild River,
No never no more.


The Wild River is another name for the Columbia River, and song was put together by Woody Guthrie, when he was on the Grand Coulee Dam project, but he never put it out, because it didn't really fit in with the message that the Dam was a great thing for everybody...