Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Columbia's Waters , by - Woody Guthrie. Release date: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
Columbia's Waters |
| «Good Morning, Mister Sunshine!» |
| «Good morning, Man!» |
| I’m just a stranger, travelin' 'cross y’r land; |
| Do y' need a good workhand |
| On your big Grand Coulee dam? |
| I’d like to settle down but I’m forced to ramble all o' my time |
| I’d like to settle down with this wife and kids of mine; |
| But a place to settle down my family |
| Is a pretty hard place to find! |
| I like to work. |
| I work every time I can! |
| I got a callous in the palms of both o' my hands! |
| This ramblin' around from town to town |
| Goes hard on a family man! |
| I said I like to work, I don’t like to beg and steal! |
| The harder I’m a workin' the better it makes me feel! |
| But my wife and kid get juberous |
| Everytime they miss a meal! |
| I’m a hardrock man, I was born in a hardrock place! |
| Back in my home place I was a man of high degree! |
| Nobody with a triphammer |
| Can knock as big a hole as me |
| This Columbia River |
| Rolls right down this line; |
| Columbia’s waters taste like sparklin' wine; |
| Dustbowl waters taste like picklin' brine |
| The money that I draw from workin' at your Coullee dam; |
| My wife will meet me at the kitchen door stretchin' out her hand; |
| She’ll make a little down payment |
| On our forty acre tract of land |
| We’ll work along this river, I’ll sing from sun to sun; |
| I’ll walk along this grass and listen to the factory hum; |
| Look what I’ve done gone and done |
| Take some sow from off this mountain, mix it with some wind and rain! |
| Take some metal from yer mountain, melt it up again; |
| Stir it up with powers from Coullee’s dam |
| And you’ve got a big sabre jet plane |
| Take some water from this valley, mix it up with snow; |
| Take my ramblin' family rollin' down this road; |
| Mix it up with sunshine |
| And, man, you ought to see the green things grow! |