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Thread #24753   Message #287037
Posted By: Ebbie
29-Aug-00 - 01:35 AM
Thread Name: Fahrenheit 451-The LAST Song
Subject: Lyr Add: RIVER (Bill Staines)
I will choose to save Bill Staines' River. I love what it says.

I was born in the path of the winter wind
Raised where the mountains are old
The springtime waters came dancing down
And I remember the tales they told.

The whistling ways of my younger days
Too swiftly have faded on by
But all of my memories linger on
Like the light in a fading sky.

Chorus:

River, take me along. In your sunshine, sing me your song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river, you changing old river
Let's you and me, River, run down to the sea

Well, I've been to the city and back again
Been moved by some things that I've learned
Met a lot of good people and I call them friends
Felt the change as the seasons turned

I heard all the songs that the children sing
And listened to love's melodies
Felt my own music within me rise
Like the wind in the autumn trees

Some day when the flowers are blooming still
Some day when the grass is still green
The rolling waters will round me bend
And flow in to the open sea

So here's to the rainbow that's followed me here
And here's to the friends that I know
And here's to the song that's within me now
I will sing it where'er I go.