Old Rivers

[ti:Old Rivers] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Classic Pop Hits: The 1960's, Vol. 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]Old Rivers - The Hit Crew (热歌组合) [00:04.57] [00:09.28]How old was I when I first seen Old Rivers [00:11.88] [00:13.27]I can't remember when he weren't around [00:15.48] [00:17.30]That old fellow he did a heap of work [00:19.74] [00:21.28]He spent his whole life walking plowed ground [00:23.60] [00:25.45]He had the one roomed shack not far from us [00:27.93] [00:28.91]Well we's about as poor as him [00:30.85] [00:33.60]He had one old mule he used to call Midnight [00:36.21] [00:37.04]I'd tread along after then [00:39.15] [00:41.46]He used to plow them rows just straight and deep [00:44.38] [00:45.28]And I'd come along behind [00:47.27] [00:49.51]Busting up plows with my own bare feet [00:52.01] [00:53.39]Old Rivers he was a friend of mine [00:55.74] [00:57.65]The sun had get high and [01:00.16]That old mule he'd work Old Rivers he'd finally say whoa [01:03.89] [01:05.82]He'd wipe his brow and he'd laid back on them reins [01:09.75]He'd talk about that place he's wanna go [01:11.47] [01:12.99]He used to say one of these days [01:15.04]I'm gonna climb that mountain [01:16.38] [01:17.64]I'm gonna walk up there among them Clouds [01:19.95] [01:21.29]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growing [01:24.43] [01:25.37]And there isn't no fields to plow [01:27.70] [01:37.90]I got a letter today it's from the folks back home [01:41.41] [01:42.01]They're all doing fine the crop's a little dry [01:44.24] [01:46.05]Mom said down near the end you heard Old Rivers died [01:51.30] [01:54.27]Sitting here now on this new plowed earth [01:57.03] [01:58.13]Just trying find a little shade [01:59.85] [02:01.81]Well sun's beating down cross them fields now I can see [02:06.26]That mule Old Rivers and me [02:08.18] [02:09.49]Well he used to say one of these days [02:12.09]I'm gonna climb that mountain [02:13.36] [02:14.18]I'm gonna walk up there among them Clouds [02:16.66] [02:17.75]Where the cotton's high and the corns're growing [02:20.98] [02:21.91]And there isn't no fields to plow [02:24.16] [02:25.41]With the sun beaiting own cross them fields [02:28.88]That mule Old Rivers and me