Lyr Req: My Dirty Stream (Pete Seeger)

Subject: Sailing Down My Dirty Stream (Hudson River)
From:
Date: 06 May 97 - 05:22 PM

Decades ago Pete Seeger sang one of my favourite songs about the Hudson River:

Sailing down my dirty stream Still I love it and I´ll keep it clean That some day though maybe not this year My Hudson River will once upon run clear ...

(Something like this - I write this by heart...)

Who can complete it, pleaaaase? (Nobby)

Subject: RE: Sailing Down My Dirty Stream (Hudson River)
From: Susan of DT
Date: 06 May 97 - 07:52 PM

It's in the Survival Songbook. If no one else enters it in the next few days, I will.

Subject: Lyr Add: MY DIRTY STREAM (Pete Seeger)
From: Susan of DT
Date: 08 May 97 - 07:34 PM

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.

Melody notes:
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Is the above notation at all useful? The spaces are bars

Subject: RE: Sailing Down My Dirty Stream (Hudson River)
From:
Date: 09 May 97 - 06:05 PM

Hello Susan,

the lyrics are great, the notation is useful (though I know an early edition now I learn there exist slight diffences).

Thank you again - you´re great! Nobby

Subject: RE: Sailing Down My Dirty Stream (Hudson River)
From: rich r
Date: 11 May 97 - 10:57 PM

Sorry Susan i was going to enter it for you, but have been away for a few days. As implied by Nobby there are some slight lyric differences between the Survial Songbook version from days of yore and the ones printed in Pete Seeger's "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" more recent book.

rich r

Subject: RE: Sailing Down My Dirty Stream (Hudson River)
From: Susan of DT
Date: 13 May 97 - 08:39 PM

The Survival Songbook was put out by the Sierra Club in 1971, at a price of $4.95