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Artist: The Fugs
Canonical path: /the-fugs/wide-wide-river
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Wide, Wide River
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Wide, Wide River
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River of shit
River of shit
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
Right from my toes
On up to my nose
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
I've been swimming
In this river of shit
More than 20 years
And i'm getting tired of it
Don't like swimming
Hope it'll run dry
Got to go on swimming
Cause i don't want to die
Spoken:
Oh i can feel another 1000 years
Of the flapjacks of sorrow! unless!
Unless we make 2000 a.d.! 2000 a.d.
Our glorious deadline
A glorious deadline to make the
World a better place!
Or else the flapjacks of sorrow
Are going to slide down our throats
Slide down our throats
For another millenium
Of pain and war and oppression
And all our children's children's children's
Children's children children
Shall have to wade and to swim
In the same grim river
In which we now swim
Sing along with us
Sing sing sing sing sing sing sing sing!
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