American Rivers

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[Verse 1]
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Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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It’s all been ground down to 
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molasses
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Yeah, yeah, yeah


[Verse 2]

I saw a red iron sunset

From a rust iron bridge
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In the Indian country
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Of the mockingbird kid


[Verse 3]

I saw the moon in a boxcar

Being carried as freight
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Through sixty-two winters
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Through forty-eight states


[Verse 4]

In an old Chinese graveyard

I slept in the weeds
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When a song and a story
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Were all a kid needs


[Verse 5]

Hear the rhymes and the rattles

Of those runaway trains
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And the songs of the cowboy
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And the sound of the rain


[Chorus]

And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"

I woke up and screamed
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American rivers
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Roll deep through my dreams
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It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
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Shenandoah, Susquehanny
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And the Wabash and the Hudson, the 
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brave Rio Grande
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I was a kid there, asleep in the 
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sandy old water
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Yeah, old water, yeah


[Interlude]
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[Verse 6]

We named ‘em for Indians

Our guilt to forsake
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The Delaware the Blackfoot
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The Flathead the Snake


[Verse 7]

Now they roll past casinos

And old hamburger stands
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They’re all waving farewell
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To the kid on the land


[Verse 8]

With their jigsawed old arteries

So clogged and defiled
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No open heart miracle
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Is gonna turn ’em back wild


[Verse 9]

Past towns gone to bankers

Past fields gone to seed
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All cut up and carved out
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So divided by greed


[Verse 10]

And old grandfather catfish

With his whiskers so long
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And his life in a struggle
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'Cause the oxygen’s gone


[Chorus]

"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and
 screamed
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These American rivers
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They poison my dreams
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It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
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Shenandoah, Susquehanny
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And the Wabash and the Hudson, the 
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brave Rio Grande
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I was a kid there, I was asleep in 
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the sandy old water
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Yeah, old water, yeah