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Sailing My Dirty Stream

from Where the Heron Waits by Betty and the Baby Boomers

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Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That some day, though maybe not this year
My Hudson River will once again run clear.

It starts high in the mountains of the north
Crystal clear and icy trickles forth
With just one floating wrapper of chewing gum
Dropped by some hikers to warn of things to come.

Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That some day, though maybe not this year
My Hudson River will once again run clear.

At Glens Falls, five thousand honest hands
Working daily at the GE plant
Five hundred gallons of waste a day,
Why should we do it any other way?

Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That some day, though maybe not this year
My Hudson River will once again run clear

Down the valley one million toilet chains
Find my Hudson a convenient place to drain
And each town and village says, "Who, me?"
Do you think that sewage treatment plants come free?

Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That some day, though maybe not this year
My Hudson River will once again run clear.

Out in the ocean they say the water's clear
But I live on the river here
Half way between the mountains and sea,
Tacking to and fro, this thought returns to me

Sailing up my dirty stream
Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
That some day, though maybe not this year
My Hudson and my country will run clear.

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from Where the Heron Waits, released January 1, 2009

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Betty and the Baby Boomers New Paltz, New York

An acoustic folk quintet from New York's Hudson Valley. Folk song magazine Sing Out! described the group as “a refreshing reminder of the halcyon days of American folk music” and the CD [Tumbling Through the Stream of Days] as “an enthusiastic testament to the sheer joy of singing and playing music.” ... more

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