NEIL YOUNG - Powderfinger lyrics

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Look out, mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river<br>With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail<br>I think you'd better call john,<br>'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail<br>And it's less than a mile away<br>I hope they didn't come to stay<br>It's got numbers on the side and a gun<br>And it's makin' big waves.<br><br>Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains<br>Big john's been drinking since the river took emmy-lou<br>So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'<br>And I just turned twenty-two<br>I was wonderin' what to do<br>And the closer they got,<br>The more those feelings grew.<br><br>Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin'<br>He told me, red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin'<br>But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin'<br>Raised my rifle to my eye<br>Never stopped to wonder why.<br>Then I saw black,<br>And my face splashed in the sky.<br><br>Shelter me from the powder and the finger<br>Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger<br>Think of me as one you'd never figured<br>Would fade away so young<br>With so much left undone<br>Remember me to my love,<br>I know I'll miss her.