Текст песни Will the Salmon Come Home? - Ian Carrick

Chinook runs used to fill the streams till you could walk across
Guthrie sang for Grand Cooley but did not feel the loss
Today those streams run empty of the wild fish they love
Orca mamas hungry, cannot feed their young

Will the salmon come home
Against the odds, water's warm
Will the salmon come home
When I'm old, dead and gone

Today Bonneville has no songwriter, they do not have the cash
Moving fish with elevators hasn't brought them back
Taxpayers we've all paid to keep these dams alive
For 50 years Nez Perce have prayed Our Brother won't survive this

Will the salmon come home
Against the odds, water's warm
Will the salmon come home
When I'm old, dead and gone

I don't know if I can fit this story in a song
Celilo fed 10,000 years of people now it's gone
The fish came back a week after the Elwha dam came down
A billion-dollar band-aid won't make a heart unbound

Call me a naïve songwriter, mired in the past
But when our cities flood with water which legacy will last
Bureaucracy too full of fear to address a mistake
Or ancient rivers running clear how my young heart aches

Will the salmon come home
Against the odds, water's warm
Will the salmon come home
When I'm old, dead and gone
When I'm old, dead and gone
When I'm old, dead and gone