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That River Is Behind MeThat River Is Behind Me(© Words and Music by Andy Hill) Through the circling winds and the dustbowl summers Her tears for the lost ones your Mother hid somehow Across broad prairie shoulders God hung an immigrant’s burden But you didn’t complain, You wouldn’t know how Instead you made it through So this one’s for you I thank you mother, That river is behind me now Police dog howling, the blur of the billy club Hell, walkin’ down the street you could raise eyebrows And from those broken old shoes came songs on the busses Along dangerous highways through the sundown towns Somehow you made it through So this one’s for you I thank you brother That river is behind me now Heroes flash through your world maybe once in a lifetime Like a comet dividing the black and the blue But some people are like that northern star They shine with every setting sun the whole night through When I lay me down and the day’s last casualty Keeps me tortured and turnin’ and thinkin’ I’ll drown I know when tomorrow arrives clean at midnight That I’ll wake standing, standing on solid ground I’ll follow them footprints along the shore Plant my own where there ain’t no more Because that river, That bloody river You crossed that river And the river is behind me now |