Night Boat To Cairo !!.....
It's just gone noon
Half past monsoon
On the banks of the river Nile
Here comes the boat
Only half-afloat
Oarsman grins a toothless smile
Only just one more
To this desolate shore
Last boat along the river Nile
Doesn't seem to care
No more wind in his hair
As he reaches his last half mile
The oar snaps in his hand
Before he reaches dry land
But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
Just pokes at wet sand
With an oar in his hand
Floats off down the river Nile
Floats off down the river Nile
and not forgetting Lonnie Donegan : 'In 1840 we took a little trip along with Colonel Packenham up the mighty Mississipi, We took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we fought the bloomin' British at a town called New Orleans...........'
find the river - REM (great album) dirty water - the inmates (could be a Charlton anthem as this version is about the Thames) moon river - morrissey (better than Andy Williams version IMHO - though there is a cracking version in an old film which is mint) night boat to Cairo - Madness (love this song so much - remember everyone going crazy to it in Benacassim a couple of years back, absolutely blinding) and my favourite River Man - Nick Drake (the most riverine song of the lot - what atmosphere)
Pixies - River Euphrates Morrissey - Come Back to Camden - "Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames" Silicon Teens - Red River Rock Nick Mason - Hot River Pink Floyd - The Gnome - "Look at the sky, look at the river. Isn't it good?"
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And that's a station!
Mersea- Duffy
Proud Mary and Green River : Creedence CR
Lazy River (and Splish Splash perhaps) : Bobby Darin
beck.fourteen rivers fourteen floods
amos lee.black river
It's just gone noon
Half past monsoon
On the banks of the river Nile
Here comes the boat
Only half-afloat
Oarsman grins a toothless smile
Only just one more
To this desolate shore
Last boat along the river Nile
Doesn't seem to care
No more wind in his hair
As he reaches his last half mile
The oar snaps in his hand
Before he reaches dry land
But the sound doesn't deafen his smile
Just pokes at wet sand
With an oar in his hand
Floats off down the river Nile
Floats off down the river Nile
orinocco flow - enya
moon river - andy williams
(has 3 rivers in it)
Good call mersey thames and the tyne
Sitting by the Riverside - The Kinks
Watching the River Flow - Dylan
Rio Grande - Brian Wilson
River Stay Away From My Door : Frank Sinatra
and not forgetting Lonnie Donegan : 'In 1840 we took a little trip along with Colonel Packenham up the mighty Mississipi,
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
and we fought the bloomin' British at a town called New Orleans...........'
dirty water - the inmates (could be a Charlton anthem as this version is about the Thames)
moon river - morrissey (better than Andy Williams version IMHO - though there is a cracking version in an old film which is mint)
night boat to Cairo - Madness (love this song so much - remember everyone going crazy to it in Benacassim a couple of years back, absolutely blinding)
and my favourite River Man - Nick Drake (the most riverine song of the lot - what atmosphere)
There's a river in that.
Utter sh1te. But I bet it's in your head for hours now.
Thats got a river in it
Big RIVER - Johnny Cash
YELLOW Sun - The Raconteurs
Stone THAMES - Big Audio Dynamite
Struggling for the 5th so going for
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (written by TRENT Reznor)
Morrissey - Come Back to Camden - "Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames"
Silicon Teens - Red River Rock
Nick Mason - Hot River
Pink Floyd - The Gnome - "Look at the sky, look at the river. Isn't it good?"
Dirty Water - The Standells. One of my favourite songs and played at Red Sox games