Song Lyrics Walter Brennan - Old Rivers    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> W>> Walter Brennan Singer Lyrics>> Old Rivers Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Walter Brennan Music Title/Track: Old Rivers Theme ID: 1928 Album: N/A OLD RIVERS Walter Brennan Words and music by Crofford (that's all I wrote at the time I transcribed it -- years ago) HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE I FIRST SEEN OLD RIVERS? WHY, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN HE WEREN'T AROUND. WELL, THAT OLD MAN DID A HEAP OF WORK; SPENT HIS WHOLE LIFE WALKING PLOWED GROUND. HE HAD A ONE-ROOM SHACK NOT FAR FROM US, AND WE WAS ABOUT AS POOR AS HIM. HE HAD ONE OLD MULE HE CALLED "MIDNIGHT", AND I'D TAG ALONG AFTER THEM. HE'D PLOW THEM ROWS STRAIGHT AND DEEP AND I'D TAG ALONG BEHIND, BUSTIN' UP CLODS WITH MY OWN BARE FEET -- OLD RIVERS WAS A FRIEND OF MINE. THAT SUN WOULD GET HIGH AND THAT MULE WOULD WORK TILL OLD RIVERS'D SAY, "WHOA!" THEN HE'D WIPE HIS BROW, LEAN BACK IN THE REINS, AND TALK ABOUT A PLACE HE WAS GONNA GO. (CHORUS) 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. I GOT A LETTER FROM BACK HOME THE OTHER DAY -- THEY'RE ALL FINE, AND THE CROPS IS HIGH -- AND DOWN AT THE END MY MAMA SAID, "YOU KNOW, OLD RIVERS DIED." I'M JUST SITTING HERE ON THIS NEW-PLOWED EARTH, TRYIN' TO FIND ME A LITTLE SHADE. AND WITH THE SUN BEATING DOWN, 'CROSS THE FIELD I SEE THAT MULE, OLD RIVERS...AND ME (repeat CHORUS) From: "Roy T. O'Conner" Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Finally Found a Girlfriend, Get Out of the Kitchen, Happy Home, Hard Love, Hot Summer Nights, Invisible Man, Jean, Just the Wanting, Land of the Living, Let Go, Love Is In Your Veins, Magnet & Steel, Make It Alone, Nobody Dreams Anymore, Only Love Is Left Alive, Only the Lucky, Pistols Of Power, Rain In Tennessee, Reason Why, Silvery Sleep, Sister of the Moon, Someone Like You, Star in the Dust, Strange Love Affair, Stubborn Girl, Ten Years Ago, The Bias of Love, The Blonde in the Blue T-Bird, The Faces People Make, The Loneliest Boy, The Tide and the Sea, The Truth, There Goes My Girl, Time And The Rain, Tunnel of Love, Unloved, Wanting You, Welcome To The Room...Sara, When I Get My Wheels, Wont You Say You Will, Yes I Guess I Am, You Pay For Love, Where Have All The Flowers Gone, Gotta Leave This Town, Lookin For The Promised Land, To Begin Again, Dog On A Chain, Drive Me, Fly On Sweet Angel, Hold On, Other Walter Brennan song Lyrics Dutchmans Gold Lyrics Ghost Riders in the Sky Lyrics Mama Sang A Song Lyrics Other Artists Walter Brown Lyrics Walter Davis Lyrics Walter Egan Lyrics Walter Raim Lyrics Walter Trout Lyrics Waltham Lyrics Walz Christian Lyrics Wamdue Project Lyrics Wanastowi Vjecy Lyrics Wand Betty Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy