The River Goes By by Philip Bassett
3 verses:
1. The river goes by, pretending it's always the same river
The river goes by, meandering through St. Joseph, Michigan
to the courthouse there
They say he gets in the way
And he has too much to say
They have to stick Rev. Pinkney into prison.
kick
trick
2. The river goes by and it's not a raging river
The river goes by and I'm wondering how it stays there in her eyes
when she speaks of him
His wife Dorothy
somehow moves a river in me
And it goes drip, drip down my shirt to think of him in prison
3. The river goes by, being always the same river
The river goes by, remembering all the lawyers and their lies
hidden between the lines
There's a whirlpool going down
Gonna take the entire town
and they won't give any ground 'til everyone's in prison
