Songs with "River" in them

[floydian slip]

Im making a compilation cd of songs w/ River in it, it can just be in the lyrics too.

What I got so far:

Grateful Dead - Big River
The Doors - Yes The River Knows
Neil Young - Down By The River
Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
Deep Purple - River Deep Mountain High
Zeppelin - Traveling Riverside Blues
CCR - Green River

proll put some Johnny Rivers and Little River Band on it too.


also working on a Mountain compilation.

Songs with and-or by Mountain(s)

[tambourine-man]

River of Dreams (Billy Joel) - very 'river-y' actually
Rivers of Babylon (Some singer)
Moon River (Johnny Mercer)
Old Man River (I remember someone singing this, emphasising the fact that 'river' is pronounced 'ribber'... and making some joke about and old man's ribber... disgusting).

She'll be coming round the Mountain when she comes....

[reg]

the river ... santana (one of my very favorite songs)

[VWguy]

Marty Robbins - Red River Valley
Oak Ridge Boys - Gonna Take A Lot Of River
Walter Brennan - Old Rivers
Linda Ronstadt - Rivers Of Babylon
Johnny & The Hurricanes - Red River Rock
A Very Ally Christmas - River
Alabama - Tennessee River
HighwayMen - Big River
Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
America - Don't Cross the River
Grass Roots - The River Is Wide
Whitesnake - River Song
Ralph Stanley and Friends - The Lonesome River
Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues
Garth Brooks - The River

[Wenchie]

down in the river to pray - alison krauss

[daddydirt]

I come from down in the valley
where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
when she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
they haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
that sends me down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
my baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

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