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  1. Mighty River

From the recording Flow

Lyrics

Mighty River

Old Ben was walking down the street preaching the Rights of Man

He said “it’s plain ol’ common sense don’t y’all understand?”

The Senator didn’t like that and he got paranoid, and said

“If everybody thinks this way I’ll be unemployed!”

Ben was a crazy bastard but he weren’t no fool

I guess he learned the hard way about the golden rule

When he hopped a train and headed down to Jackson, Tennessee

And he found himself a home on the shores of Galilee

Won’t you meet me on the banks of the mighty river

I’m looking for a friend to take me home

Reach out your hand I need it more than ever

I’ll be here watching that river flow

Hannah heard the lesson, and said “We leave tonight, and

“We’ll see the land of milk and honey by the morning light.”

But just across the border they stopped her in the street, saying

"We got wives and children and they all got to eat”

Won’t you meet me on the banks of the mighty river

I’m looking for a friend to take me home

Reach out your hand I need it more than ever

I’ll be here watching that river flow

Take me to the promised land, I’m tired of all this dust

I tried to play my guitar but the strings have turned to rust

Everything that’s here falls apart in the end

But when Ben gets to preachin’ I know I’ve got a friend

Won’t you meet me on the banks of the mighty river

I’m looking for a friend to take me home

Reach out your hand I need it more than ever

I’ll be here watching that river flow

River flow

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