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Thread #7269   Message #3512928
Posted By: kendall
08-May-13 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: River Songs
Subject: RE: River Songs
The Jam on Gerry's Rock.On the Machias river.

Mississippi River Blues:
"Oh you Mississippi River, with waters so deep and wide;
My thoughts of you keep rising, just like an evening tide." (Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Snow).

That line from American Pie:..."drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry"...I used to think that was just silly contrived lame poetry, but then someone told me that in this case, the Levee is the name of a bar.
I still don't know.

Sweet Bird of Youth: "Rolling river, take me away,
I heard you travel on to brighter days,
And I'd like to ride upon the crest of a single wave"...(David Mallett)