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‘River Driver’, sometimes also called ‘The River Driver’s Lament’, is a traditional folk song listed on the Roud Folk Song Index as #4564, originating from Newfoundland, Canada.
It describes the life of a log driver, a lumber worker whose job involved moving timber logs by floating them downriver,...
I was just the age of sixteen when I first went on the drive
After six months hard labor, at home I did arrive
I courted with a pretty girl, t'was her caused me to roam
Now I'm just a river driver and I'm far away from home
I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry
Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by
And if this river don't drown me, it's down I'll mean to roam
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
I'll build a lonesome castle upon some mountain high
Where she can sit and view me as I go passing by
Where she can sit and view me as I go marching on
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry
Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by
And if this river don't drown me, it's down I'll mean to roam
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
When I am old and feeble and in my sickness lie
Just wrap me up in a blanket and lay me down to die
Just get a little bluebird to sing for me alone
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry
Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by
And if this river don't drown me, it's down I'll mean to roam
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry
Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by
And if this river don't drown me, it's down I'll mean to roam
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home
The River Driver was written by Traditional.
Great Big Sea released The River Driver on Tue Oct 11 2005.