Craig Bickhardt - Men And Rivers lyrics

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Ever since hands could build

Since dreams could float

They've been shoving off together in a wooden boat

Fathers and sons

Casting lines together

That's the bond between men and rivers

There were gamblers and girls

Good old Mark Twain

Big wheels from the Gulf Coast to the Illinois plain

Here's to the Huck Finns

And the young Tom Sawyers

That's the romance of men and rivers

Chorus:

Carrying rumors of gold in the pan

We followed these veins all over this land

The rugged risk takers

The rolling reward givers

That's the story of men and rivers

Men and rivers

Ever since rain could fall

Since floods could rise

They've been kneeling in mud and cursing the skies

But some hang on because

They aren't quitters

That's the measure of men and rivers

Chorus:

Bold hearts like Lewis and Clark mapped the west

Trappers and loggers and poets, the rest

And black southern preachers

Who baptize the sinners

All touch the spirits of men and rivers

Men and rivers

Ever since hands could build

Since dreams could float

They've been shoving off together in a wooden boat

Fathers and sons

Casting lines together

That's the bond between men and rivers