River Man

All the barges stroll past that Embarrass Portage
For fuel or for mail stop at the lodge

Northern muskrat love, delta deep in your heart
Quatre Fourche push and pull ripped it apart

From your people it comes
The fire in your blood
Soul shapes from the land
Through the Athabasca mud

It's a river rat life so the story be told
The river man don't ever get old

You got the furs of a plenty, trapline mainstay
They got oil from the ground, that's what they say

People will be coming, coming to stay
Our mother she gives, under mother we lay

From your people it comes
The fire in your blood
Soul shapes from the land
Through the Athabasca mud

River rat life, story be told
The river man never get old

When the water on the land turns hard into shield
It's a Cambrian tower takes you in with eyes peeled

When her ice starts to build, reach out her arms
Flow sets for the winter, winterous charms

From your people it comes
The fire in your blood
Soul shapes from the land
Through the Athabasca mud

River rat life, story be told
The river man never grow old

Athabasca
Hangingstone

Clearwater
Muskeg

Christina
Mackay
River mud

Firebag
Richardson

Jackfish
Birch

Peace
Slave
River mud

River man
River man
Don't ever get old

The river man
The river man
Never grow old

River mud
In your blood

Don't ever get old



Credits
Writer(s): Chilblaine Winters
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