Keelaghan James River Run Lyrics

River Run Lyrics

River of blue cut through the valley
Swept past the willows and the sandy
bar
Ran so swift, locked in my mem'ry
But the way things were is not the
way things are
We used to swim in the crook of its arm
In the summer heat
who could be blamed
Avoided the rapids as best as we could
Never thought
that that stream could be tamed
Long ago I gave up that riverside
valley
Traded coulees for towers of steel
Abandoned the vistas and
valleys of childhood
For the things that they told me were real
No more
would I run with the speed of a colt
Cross the gravel down by water
side
To race with the twig I threw in at the bend
Couldn't beat it though
god knows I tried
Now the river's not running as fast as it did
There's a
dam there restricting the flow
And I don't run either as fast as I
could
Guess that river and I have grown old
Now it's strange in returning
to places of youth
It seems your memory has made a mistake
Cause the place
that once scared you with white water running
Has been turned by decree to a
lake
Makes me think about how too I smoothed out the wrinkles
Made the
waters as calm as you please
Makes me think about how that river and
I
Were both happier when we ran free
Now the river's not running as fast
as it did
There's a dam there restricting the flow
And I don't run either
as fast as I could
Guess that river and I have grown old
Guess that river
and I have grown old