Come and sit by the river

- Bluegrass

I could see that you're ready to go home 
There's some TV shows that you're missing 
But you know how an old love loves to talk 
And he needs someone who will listen 
 
    Come and sit by the river with me for a while 
    And I'll tell you a story that's true 
    Of when I was a boy playing here on the shore 
    And the grass was so green and the water so blue 
 
Well our house stood right over there 
Of course they took it down for the highway 
I can see my moma's tears, we've been there for twenty years 
And you know we would still if I had my way 
 
In those days you could often find me here 
With the rest of the nieghborhood children 
There was so much we could do, there was fishin' swimmin' too 
There was always some raft that we were building 
 
 * Refrain 
 
Many years I have watched this river flow 
Rolling down from the hills to the ocean 
I have seen the waters high, almost fierce and rushing by 
I have seen in nearly dry and without motion 
 
Now at last you can see what it has come to 
Oh we prospered but poisoned the waters 
Now the turnes have all been played and the piper must be paid 
Not by us but our sons and daughters 
 
 * Refrain