The Other Way, by Andrew McKnight

The Other Way

from Where This River Runs by Andrew McKnight

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For Jay & Joan Shults of Cosby, TN

lyrics

Words & music A. McKnight, ©1997 Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
That old photo shows my farm, along this river clear
so long ago before that paper mill appeared
my granddad is that man, fishin’ on the banks
in the gentle shadow of these smoky mountain flanks
Chorus
My faith will take me someday to the Promised Land
and I know it’ll look just like my home, before this curse began,
and if I could change the world, I wonder what they’d say,
if this dirty river, flowed the other way

Verse 2
8 decades passed since that day they flipped the switch
and unimagined nightmares poured downstream while they got rich
the government brought permits, hearings, bureaucrats and files
the river brought us cancer while their lawyers brought denials
Chorus

Verse 3
I take deep regret into my twilight years,
what unknown demons face the ones I hold so dear,
bury me along these banks in our Appalachian way
in the hope this stinking river will flow pure again someday
Chorus

credits

from Where This River Runs, released 01 August 1998
AM - vocals, guitar
Jeff Arey - mandolin
Randy Barrett - banjo
Laurie Rose Griffith - harmony vocals

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous ... more stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. less