Deep River (3)
[This is Deep River 2003, the "Cleopatra version", the third version and second major revision of the lyrics]
Cleopatra’s got a steamboat
She rides the river nile
She sharpens up her fingers
with a crocodile file
And she sends one man fishin’
And another man below
To work on the steam engine
Shovelin’ the coal
I’m in the crows nest
I can’t hardly see
Cairo, North Carolina
Cause the trees are thick with leaves
And they took the navigator
And they’ve got him up in chains
He’s been there since last Thursday
He’s begun to rave
It’s a deep river
I’m dying for a drink
I just may wait forever
For that boat I’m in to sink
The house that I’m living in
To be consumed by flames
Or better yet a hurricane
You can turn my weather vane
Predators are everywhere
Crocodiles and snakes
Insects fill the evening air
With the noises that they make
Like the Colorado or the Mississippi
or the desert that’s been drowned
by the grand Hoover Dam
with the water comin’ down
Oh and it’s a deep river
and I’m dying for a drink
and I just can’t wait forever
for that boat I’m in to sink
or the house that I’m living in
to be consumed by flames
or better yet a hurricane
You can turn my weather vane
oh yeah you can turn my weather vane
oh yeah you turned my weather vane
The river flowin’ fast and
Flooding can make us whole again
On and on there’s an angel
in the orchestra
that’s playing songs
that none of us have heard before
and if you feel strong
why don’t you come and lend a hand
It’s not too hard to understand
Cause after all we’re all in it together
I’m a child, I am old, I’m on an ocean going vessel
and if the sky should fall
We’d all need to seek shelter
We’re all in it together after all
We’re all in it together after all
We’re all in it together after all
All in it together
All in it together
all in this together after all
Afterall we’re all in it together
I’m a child, I am old, I’m on an ocean going vessel
and if the sky should fall
we’d all need to seek shelter
we’re all in it together after all
we’re all in it together after all
we’re all in it together after all
all in this together after all