Now I Got A River

Bill Noonan, 2003

 

Steven’s Pass is clear

For the first time this year

Heard it on the radio today

Apple trees in bloom above Wenatchee

Rivers risin’ with the snow melt

And a good warm Cascade rain

 

Been sleepin’ in the straw

On a farm near Yakima

But the river’s lookin’ better every day

Ran a drift boat up the Canyon

Put her in at Ellensburg

Worked the river

All that summer

I mean every bend and curve

 

I had a place back on the East coast

I paid the price

I had my ticket to the game

But one day on the way back from Seattle

I missed a plane

Now I got a river and a long time to complain

Now I got a river and a lotta time to complain

 

In the fall just turn me loose over on the old Palouse

Where my horses and my huntin’ dogs can range

Flushin birds out in those endless wheatfields

Till the snow comes back and blocks the pass again

 

I had a place back on the East coast

I paid the price I had my ticket to the game

But one day on the way back from Seattle

I missed a plane

Now I got a river and a lotta time to complain

Now I got a river and a long time to complain

Now I got a river, Now I got a river

Now I got a river and a long time to complain