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Did I totally fuck this thread up from it's original purpose or what?

Bob Dylan - "The Tides They Are A-Changing"
 
My Father

Performed by Nina Simone, original lyrics by Judy Collins

My father always promised me
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters all grew up and went away
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
And I danced alone
Hoping that my father's dreams
Would someday take me home

And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner's life
In words they've never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's lies
again
 
So I was just looking to put together a water-inspired playlist and I thought, "I know! I'll check that thread I started ages ago."

Naturally, the ACTUAL suggestions stop on ... what, the second page? :D:facepalm:
 
It's probably been already said, but "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and by extension the whole of the fantastic "Trouble Over Bridgwater";

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don't think it's been posted on here.. the thread title made me think robbie robertson 'somewhere down the crazy river'..

 
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