Lyrics Old Rivers (Remastered) - 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
walking
plowed
ground.
He
had
a
one-room
shack
not
far
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.
That
sun'd
get
high
and
that
mule
would
work
Till
old
Rivers'd
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
amoung
the
clouds
Where
the
cotton's
high
And
the
corn's
a-growin'
And
there
ain't
no
fields
to
plow.
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Instrumental
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I
got
a
letter
today
from
the
folks
back
home
and
They're
all
fine
and
crops
is
dry
Down
at
the
end
my
mama
said,
"Son
You
know
old
Rivers
died."
Just
sittin'
here
now
on
this
new-plowed
earth
Trying
to
find
me
a
little
shade
With
the
sun
beating
down
'cross
the
field
I
see
That
mule,
old
Rivers
and
me.
Now,
one
of
these
days
I'm
gonna
climb
that
mountain
Walk
up
there
amoung
the
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
'cross
the
field
I
see
That
mule,
old
Rivers
and
me...
1 Old Rivers (Remastered)
2 The Old Kelly Place (Remastered)
3 Conversation With a Mule (Remastered)
4 The Farmer and the Lord (Remastered)
5 Happy Birthday Old Folk (Remastered)
6 It Takes a Heap of Living (To Make a House a Home) [Remastered]
7 Boll Weevil (Remastered)
8 Steal Away (Remastered)
9 Pickin' Time (Remastered)
10 Old Rivers' Trunk (Remastered)
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