The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1453   Message #5008
Posted By: Susan of DT
08-May-97 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Dirty Stream (Pete Seeger)
Subject: Lyr Add: MY DIRTY STREAM (Pete Seeger)
OK I'll enter it since no one else did. This is not my kind of song

MY DIRTY STREAM
By Pete Seeger

Sailing down my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That someday though maybe not this year
My Hudson River will once again run clear
It starts high in the mountains of the north
Crystal clear and icy trickles forth
With just a few floating wrappers of chewing gum
Dropped by some hikers to warn of things to come

At Glens Fall, 5000 honest hands
Work at the Consolidated Paper Plant
Five million gallons of waste a day
Why should we do it any other way?
Down the valley one million toilet chains
Find my Hudson so convenient place to drain
And each little city says, "Who, me?
Do you think that sewage plants come free?"

In the great ocean they say the water's clear
But I live at Beacon pier here
Halfway between the mountains and the sea
Tacking back and forth this thought returns to me
Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll dream
That someday though maybe not this year
My Hudson and my country will run clear.

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