verse 1
Ain?t no more cane on the Brazos
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It?s all been ground down to molasses
Yeah, yeah, yeah
verse 2
In the Indian country
Of the mockingbird kid
verse 3
Through sixty-two winters
Through forty-eight states
verse 4
When a song and a story
Were all a kid needs
Verse 5
And the songs of the cowboy
And the sound of the rain
And it?s, "Mom, I miss you"
American rivers
Roll deep through my dreams
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
I was a kid there, asleep in the sandy old water
Yeah, old water, yeah
Interlude
Verse 6
We named ?em for Indians
The Delaware the Blackfoot
The Flathead the Snake
Verse 7
They?re all waving farewell
To the kid on the land
Verse 8
No open heart miracle
Is gonna turn ?em back wild
Verse 9
All cut up and carved out
So divided by greed
verse 10
And his life in a struggle
'Cause the oxygen?s gone
"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
These American rivers
They poison my dreams
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
I was a kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old water
Yeah, old water, yeah
Outro