Текст песни Misc Unsigned Bands - Walter Brennan - Old Rivers

Old Rivers:Walter Brennan.
#2 Easy Listening, #3 Country and #5 on BB
Hot 100 on LIBERTY Records in 1962.

#1.
How old was I when I first seen old Rivers?
I can't remember when he weren't around.
Well, that old fellow did a heap of work.
Spent his whole life walking plowed ground.

#2.
He had a one-room shack not far from us..
and well, we was about as poor as him.
He had one old mule he called Midnight..
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and I'd trailed along after them.

#3.
He used to plow them rows straight and deep..
and I'd come along near behind.
-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet..
Old Rivers was a friend of mine.

#4.
That sun'd get high and that mule would work..
till old Rivers'd finally say, 'Whoa!'
He'd wipe his brow, lean back on the reins
and talk about a place he was gonna go.

He'd say, one of these days I'm gonna climb that 

mountain.
Walk up there, among them clouds, where the cotton's 

high.
And the corn's a-growin' and there ain't no fields 
to plow.

INTERLUDE:  

#5.
I got a letter today from the folks back home and
they're all fine and crops is dry.
Down at the end my mama said, 'Son,' you know old 
Rivers died.'

#6.
Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth
trying to find me a little shade.
With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see,
that mule, old Rivers and me.

He'd say, one of these days I'm gonna climb that 

mountain.
Walk up there, among the clouds, where the cotton's 

high.
And the corn's a-growin' and there ain't no fields 
to plow.

With the sun beating down 'cross the fields I see..
that mule, old Rivers, and me..

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.