My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)

[00:06.59] sailing down my dirty stream
[00:11.29] still I love it and I'll keep the dream
[00:17.43] that some day, though maybe not this year
[00:23.03] my Hudson river, will once again run clear
[00:29.38] it starts high in the mountains of the north
[00:35.15] crystal clear and icy trickles forth
[00:40.64] with just a few floating wrappers of chewing gum
[00:46.50] dropped by some hikers to warn of things to come
[00:53.09] at glenns falls five thousand honest hands
[00:58.32] work at the consolidated paper plant
[01:04.38] five million gallons of waste a day
[01:08.86] why should we do it any other way
[01:14.82] down the valley one million toilet chains
[01:20.31] find my hudson so convenient a place to drain
[01:26.32] and each little city says 'who me,
[01:31.79] do you think that sewage plants come free'
[01:37.07] out in the ocean they say the water's clear
[01:43.05] but i, live right at beacon here
[01:49.14] halfway between the mountains and the sea
[01:54.01] tacking to and fro this thought returns to me
[02:00.35] sailing up my dirty stream
[02:05.30] still i love it and i'll dream
[02:11.28] that some day, though maybe not this year
[02:16.46] my hudson river and my country will run clear
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