Name: Wide River
Duration: P00H02M11S
Description: Written and performed by John Bahler. I wrote this in a long span of below zero degree days in northern Indiana. It was one of my early experiments in swing harmonies.

Wide River

from He Fell from the Moon to the Earth by John Bahler

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Written and performed by John Bahler. I wrote this in a long span of below zero degree days in northern Indiana. It was one of my early experiments in swing harmonies.

lyrics

Wide river, tell me a tale:
Paint this city like a big old jail.
Wide river, sing me a song.
Let those ripples carry me along to freedom

Roll river roll.
I got no sail I got no paddle.
Take me on down your riverbank.
Make me believe that nothing is the matter with me.
Take me on down that muddy old Mississippi

Wide river, tell me a lie:
in this whole world it's just you and I.
Wide river, wash me clean.
Let this rickety raft careen to freedom.

Roll river roll.
I got no sail I got no paddle.
Take me on down your riverbank.
Make me believe that nothing is the matter with me.
Take me on down that muddy old Mississippi

Roll river, roll on river.
Teach me in endless whispers.
Roll river, roll on river.
Roll on and on and on and on forever.

Roll river roll.
I got no sail I got no paddle.
Take me on down your riverbank.
Make me believe that nothing is the matter with me.
Take me on down that muddy old Mississippi
Take me on down that muddy old Mississippi
Take me on down that muddy old Mississip

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from He Fell from the Moon to the Earth, released April 16, 2014

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