Boat's Up the River

from Alone on the Wide Wide Sea by Craig Edwards

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Boat’s Up the River (1930s?)
This is Kentucky musician Roscoe Holcomb’s arrangement of a 19th century riverman’s song. Several of his driving performances of this song were recorded by John Cohen in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

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Boat's up the river and it won't come down

I believe to my soul Lord that I'm waterbound



If the river was whiskey and I was a duck

Lord I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up



Going down the river, take my rocking chair

If that blues overtakes me, rock away from here



Boat's up the river and it won't come down

I believe to my soul Lord that I'm waterbound



I'll go down to the river, and I'll set right down

If those blues don't leave me, jump in the river and drown



Boat's up the river and it won't come down

I believe to my soul Lord that I'm waterbound

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from Alone on the Wide Wide Sea, released August 9, 2022

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Craig Edwards New London, Connecticut

I play American roots music, from Appalachian fiddle and banjo tunes to Zydeco accordion. For nearly four decades i worked as a staff musician at Mystic Seaport Museum, demonstrating the use of chanteys, or sailor work songs, aboard the museum's collection of historic ships. I've plumbed the depths of sailor music, from the African American origins of chanteys to world maritime traditions. ... more

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