Old Rivers - Brennan

[00:00.0]Old Rivers - Ary Barroso
[00:08.54]How old was I when I first seen old rivers
[00:12.36]I can't remember when he weren't around
[00:16.28]Well that old fellow did a heap of work
[00:20.05]Spent his whole life walkin' plowed ground
[00:24.37]He had the one roomed shack not far from us sun
[00:27.78]Well we's about as poor as him
[00:32.09]He had one old mule he called midnight
[00:36.44]And I'd trailed along after then
[00:40.0]He used to plow them rows straight and deep
[00:44.64]And I'd come along there behind
[00:48.41]A bustin' up plows
[00:49.99]With my own bare feet
[00:52.44]Old rivers he was a friend of mine
[00:56.28]The sun had get high and that mule he'd work
[01:00.58]Old rivers he'd finally say whoa
[01:04.56]He'd wipe his brow and lean back on the reins gen
[01:08.41]He'd talk about that place he's gonna go
[01:11.58]And say one of these days
[01:14.14]I'm gonna climb that mountain
[01:16.15]Walk up there among them clouds
[01:20.19]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growin'
[01:24.14]And there ain't no fields to plow
[01:36.64]I got a letter today from the folks back home
[01:40.45]They're all fine the crop's dry
[01:44.79]Down near them in mom said shown
[01:48.69]You know old rivers died
[01:52.64]Sittin' here now on this new plowed earth
[01:56.3]Tryin' find me a little shade
[02:00.64]With the sun beatin' down cross the fields I see
[02:04.62]That mule old rivers and me
[02:08.13]Now one of these days I'm gonna climb that mountain
[02:12.54]Walk up there among them clouds
[02:16.3]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growin'
[02:20.31]And there ain't no fields to plow
[02:24.1]The sun beatin' down across the fields I see
[02:29.91]That mule old rivers and me