Lyr Req: Don't Ask What a River is For (P Seeger)

Subject: RE: PermaThread™ Unanswered Requests
From: GUEST,polly
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 11:22 PM

Can't find the lyrics to the other verses to Woody Guthrie's "Over the Waterfall". First verse and chorus are something like this:

1st verse: on the oregon idaho border
          you can find a great tricklin stream
          some call her old hell's canyon
          but to me she's a heavenly dream

chorus:    come a rika tika tinka tinka bubblin on
          don't ask what a river is for
          come a rika tika tinka tinka bubblin on
          let's ask for a billion more

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie's 'Over the Waterfall'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 03:13 AM

I've found that while it's the best that's available, The [Nearly] Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs isn't nearly as complete as I'd like it - and it doesn't help me find this song.
Oh, wait - I don't think it's by Woody. It's Don't Ask What a River Is For (click), by Pete Seeger - and it's in our Digital Tradition Folk Song Database. Melody is "Over the Waterfall."
I wonder if there's any chance you'll find this. It was buried in the "unanswered requests" thread, so I moved it here.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Guthrie's 'Over the Waterfall' (actually Seeger)
From: Pauline L
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:58 AM

This is my favorite version of Over the Waterfall. It is annotated "Play exactly as written." I guarantee that it will make you laugh.