The Winding Stream
The Carter Family * Track #8 On Give Me the Roses While I Live: Their Complete Victor Recordings (1932–1933)
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Album Give Me the Roses While I Live: Their Complete Victor Recordings (1932–1933)
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The Winding Stream by The Carter Family
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The Carter FamilyAbout
I read that this song was based on a poem a Canadian had sent to Carter family – an additional verse – I wrote as we felt the song was a little shorter than we wanted
My darling dear perched on the bow,
spots minnows in our wake
A mink takes float, swims by our boat,
his meal he’ll gladly take
The...
The Winding Stream Lyrics
[Verse 1]
O give to me a winding stream
It must not be too wide
Where waving leaves from maple trees
Do meet from either side
The water must be deep enough
To float a small canoe
With no one else but you
[Chorus]
Do not disturb
My waking dream
The splendour of
That winding stream
Flower in my canoe
Her eyes they look me through
A maiden fair with golden hair
Is very much like you
[Verse 2]
The sparkling trout beneath the bank
Does leave his hiding place
Kingfisher from the bough above
So eager to give chase
The spreading branches overhead
The sunrise peeping through
When looking, dear, at you
[Chorus]