Story Behind The Song
This song was written originally as an escape from personal stress and took on new meaning when Katrina hit the Gulf coast.
Song Description
This song describes one's longing for a better future as the character may have lost his home and livelihood due to flooding or the character empathises with those that have. The image of the log floating down the waterway represnets loss and shattered d
| Song Length |
2:15 |
Genre |
Blues - Rural, Blues - Rural |
| Tempo |
Tempo Undefined |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Poignant |
Subject |
Sadness, Worry |
| Similar Artists |
James Taylor, Johnny Winter |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
River she wide, river she deep.
River she rises and takes a man’s keep.
Sittin’ on the banks of the levee.
Upstream comes floatin’ a dream for me.
To be floatin’, like that log.
Then I’d be surley free.
No more worries, no more troubles.
Then I’d be a floatin’ free, a floatin’ free, a floatin’ free, floatin’ free.
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
River she wide, river she deep.
River she rises and takes a man’s keep.
I’m sittin’ on the banks of the levee.
Upstream comes floatin’ a dream for me.
A To be floatin’, like that log.
Then I’d be surley free.
No more worries, no more troubles.
Then I’d be a floatin’ free, a floatin’ free, a floatin’ free, a floatin’ free , a floatin’ free.
© 2005 by Monte Bluebaum