Old Rivers-Walter Brennan With The Johnny Mann Singers

[ti:Old Rivers] [ar:Walter Brennan] [al:Follow That Dream] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Rivers - Walter Brennan With The Johnny Mann Singers [00:09.26]How old was I when I first seen old Rivers [00:12.10] [00:13.23]I can't remember when he weren't around [00:15.25] [00:17.13]Well that old fellow did a heap of work [00:19.74] [00:20.63]Spent his whole life walking plowed ground [00:23.20] [00:25.05]He had a one-room shack not far from us [00:27.71] [00:28.35]And well we was about as poor as him [00:30.32] [00:33.14]He had one old mule he called Midnight [00:35.18] [00:36.96]And I'd trailed along after them [00:38.59] [00:40.94]He used to plow them rows straight and deep [00:43.73] [00:45.08]And I'd come along near behind [00:46.83] [00:48.90]A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet [00:51.69] [00:53.11]Old Rivers was a friend of mine [00:55.14] [00:57.05]That sun'd get high and that mule would work [01:00.17] [01:01.00]Till old Rivers'd final say Whoa [01:03.44] [01:05.00]He'd wipe his brow lean back on the reins [01:07.87] [01:08.81]And talk about a place he was gonna go [01:10.56] [01:12.42]He'd say one of these days [01:13.81] [01:14.59]I'm gonna climb that mountain [01:15.90] [01:16.75]Walk up there amoung the clouds [01:19.65] [01:20.64]Where the cotton's high [01:21.89] [01:22.61]And the corn's a-growin' [01:23.60] [01:24.52]And there ain't no fields to plow [01:26.73] [01:36.95]I got a letter today from the folks back home and [01:40.01] [01:40.63]They're all fine and crops is dry [01:43.32] [01:44.98]Down at the end my mama said Son [01:47.20] [01:48.99]You know old Rivers died [01:50.69] [01:52.85]Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth [01:55.95] [01:56.82]Trying to find me a little shade [01:58.66] [02:00.79]With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see [02:03.94] [02:04.87]That mule old Rivers and me [02:07.12] [02:08.43]Now one of these days [02:09.76] [02:10.60]I'm gonna climb that mountain [02:11.75] [02:12.71]Walk up there amoung the clouds [02:15.60] [02:16.58]Where the cotton's high [02:17.56] [02:18.40]And the corn's a-growin' [02:19.46] [02:20.42]And there ain't no fields to plow [02:22.50] [02:24.15]With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see [02:27.88] [02:29.99]That mule old Rivers and me