Old Rivers

[ti:Old Rivers] [ar:Walter Brennan/Earl Scruggs] [al:The Very Best of Country & Western, 25 Classic Songs by Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette & More!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.50]Old Rivers - Walter Brennan [00:01.58] [00:09.10]How old was I when I first seen Old Rivers [00:11.81] [00:13.21]I can't remember when he weren't around [00:14.98] [00:17.13]That old fellow he did a heap of work [00:19.50] [00:20.91]He spent his whole life walking plowed ground [00:22.98] [00:25.17]He had the one roomed shack not far from us [00:27.52] [00:28.44]Well we's about as poor as him [00:30.05] [00:33.24]He had one old mule he used to call Midnight [00:35.30] [00:37.22]I'd tread along after then [00:38.84] [00:41.19]He used to plow them rows just straight and deep [00:44.16] [00:45.35]And I'd come along behind [00:46.79] [00:49.24]Busting up plows with my own bare feet [00:51.72] [00:53.44]Old Rivers he was a friend of mine [00:55.51] [00:57.45]The sun had get high and [00:58.82] [00:59.50]That old mule he'd work Old Rivers he'd finally say whoa [01:03.53] [01:05.45]He'd wipe his brow and he'd laid back on them reins [01:08.30] [01:09.37]He'd talk about that place he's wanna go [01:10.95] [01:13.09]He used to say one of these days [01:15.03]I'm gonna climb that mountain [01:16.29] [01:17.33]I'm gonna walk up there among them Clouds [01:19.98] [01:21.37]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growing [01:24.11] [01:25.08]And there isn't no fields to plow [01:27.01] [01:37.59]I got a letter today it's from the folks back home [01:40.37] [01:41.46]They're all doing fine the crop's a dry [01:44.05] [01:45.93]Down near the Mom said end you heard Old Rivers died [01:51.18] [01:53.70]Sitting here now on this new plowed earth [01:56.36] [01:57.76]Just trying find a little shade [01:59.15] [02:01.72]Well sun's beating down cross them fields now I can see [02:04.87] [02:05.88]That mule Old Rivers and me [02:07.73] [02:09.53]Now one of these days [02:10.86] [02:11.62]I'm gonna climb that mountain [02:12.86] [02:13.80]Walk up there among them Clouds [02:16.48] [02:17.71]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growing [02:20.57] [02:21.69]And there isn't no fields to plow [02:23.48] [02:25.38]With the sun beaiting own cross them fields [02:28.69]I see [02:29.19] [02:31.17]That mule Old Rivers and me