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Old Rivers
Walter Brennan

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 walkin’ plowed ground


He had a one-room shack not fer from us

And well, we was about as poor as him

He had one old mule he called Midnight

And I'd trailed along after them


He used to plow them rows straight and deep

And I'd come along near behind

A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet

Old Rivers was a friend of mine


The sun'd get high and that mule would work

And old Rivers 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”


(Instrumental Break)


I got a letter today from the folks back home

And they're all fine, crops is dry

Down near the end my mama said

“Son, you know’d old Rivers died''


Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth

Trying to find me a little shade

With the sun beatin’ down across the fields I see

That mule, old Rivers and me


Now, 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


With the sun beating down across the field I see

That mule, old Rivers and me


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