《American Rivers》歌词

[00:00:01] American Rivers -Tom Russell

[00:00:07] Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos

[00:00:11] Yeah, yeah yeah

[00:00:21] It’s all been ground down to molasses

[00:00:26] Yeah yeah yeah

[00:00:37] I saw a red iron sunsets -From a rust iron bridge

[00:00:46] In the Indian country Of the mockingbird kid

[00:00:55] I saw the moon in a boxcar -Being carried as freight

[00:01:05] Through 62 winters -Through 48 states

[00:01:12] In an old Chinese graveyard -I slept in the weeds

[00:01:21] When a song and a story -Were all a kid needs

[00:01:30] Hear the rhymes and the rattles -Of those runaway trains

[00:01:39] And the songs of the cowboy -And the sound of the rain

[00:01:47] And it’s mom I miss you

[00:01:52] I woke up and screamed

[00:01:56] American rivers -Roll deep through my dreams

[00:02:06] Colorado, Yeah Alleghany, Shenandoah, Susquehanny

[00:02:23] And the Wabash and the Hudson and the brave Rio Grande

[00:02:27] I was a kid there asleep in the sandy old water

[00:02:33] Yeah old water

[00:03:06] We named ‘em for Indians -Our guilt to forsake

[00:03:15] The Delaware the Blackfoot -The Flathead the Snake

[00:03:23] Now they roll past casinos _And old hamburger stands

[00:03:31] They’re all waving farewell -To the kid on the lamb

[00:03:40] With their Jig sawed old arteries -So clogged and defiled

[00:03:46] No open heart miracle -Is gonna turn ’em back wild

[00:03:57] Past towns gone to bankers Past fields gone to seed

[00:04:06] All cut up and carved out -So divided by greed

[00:04:14] And old grandfather catfish -With his whiskers so long

[00:04:22] And his life in a struggle -Cuz the oxygen’s gone

[00:04:31] Oh mom I miss you

[00:04:35] I woke up and screamed

[00:04:39] These American rivers -They poison my dreams

[00:04:48] Colorado, Alleghany, Shenandoah, Susquehanny

[00:05:05] And the Wabash and the Hudson and the brave Rio Grande

[00:05:09] I was a kid there I was asleep in the sandy old water

[00:05:15] Yeah old water