COME SIT BY THE RIVER


1. I can see that you're ready to go home
   There's some TV show that you're missing
   But you know how an old man loves to talk
   And he needs someone who will listen

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    Come and sit by the river with me for a while
    And I'll tell you a story that's true
    Of when I was a boy playing here on the shore
    And the grass was so green and the water so blue

2. Well our hose stood right over there
   Of course they took it down for the highway
   I can see my mamma's tears, we'd been there for twenty years
   And you know we would still if I had my way

3. In those days you could often find me here
   With the rest of the neighborhood children
   There was so much we could do, there was fishing, swimming too
   There was always some raft that we were building

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4. Many years I have watched this river flow
   Rolling down from the hills to the ocean
   I have seen the waters high almost fast and rushing by
   I have seen it nearly dry and without motion

5. Now at last you can see what it has come to
   So we've prospered but poisoned the waters
   Now the tunes have all been played and the piper must be paid
   Not by us but our sons and daughters
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THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - Sit Down Young Stranger