RIVER

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I was born in the path of a the winter wind and raised where the mountains are old
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The springtime waters came dancing down -  I remember the tales they told
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The whistling ways of my younger days too quickly have faded on by
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But all of their memories linger on   like the light in a fading sky
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River take me along in your sunshine, sing me your song
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Ever moving and winding & free
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You rolling old river, you changing old river
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Let's you & me river run down to the sea!
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I've been to the city & back again    I've been moved by some things that I've learned 
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Met a lot of good people & I called them friend -  felt the change when the seasons turned   
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I heard all the songs that the children sing  And listened to love's melodies 
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I've felt my own music within me rise like the wind in the autumn trees  
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River take me along in your sunshine, sing me your song ..............
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Someday when the flowers are blooming still -someday when the grass is still green      
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My rolling waters will round the bend  and flow into the open sea    
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So here's to the rainbow that followed me here and here's to the friends that I know  
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And here's to the song that's within me now     I will sing it where'er I go    
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River take me along in your sunshine, sing me your song ......................

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