Kathy Mar - Drink Up The River Lyrics
I was sitting by a river when the thought occurred to meThere are a hundred thousand rivers that we never even seeThey are the boundaries of all we know of truth and right and wrongAnd I have written some examples for you here within my songSome are bridged and some are forded, some are swollen from the rainsSome are the ultimate result of all our joy and all our painsBut when the rivers in your life are full and starting to wash downYou've got to drink up the river before you drownChorus: You've got to drink up the river, You've got to drink up the river, You've got to drink up the river before you drown You've got to drink up the river, You've got to drink up the river, You've got to drink up the river before you drown!And through our nation's history, her times of peace and warAn overwhelming wave of misery has washed up on our shoreThey did not ask for any fortune, just a corner and a plateAnd how they shone with pride and honor as they made our country greatBut migrants now are deportees, and more are turned awayWe've forgotten it's the immigrants who made our fame todayOur salvation is that flood: white, yellow, red,
