Artist & Tune
Version by Pete Seeger
Version by Tao Rodriguez
Version by Richie Havens
Version by Kim and Reggie Harris
About the Song
Tune is adapted from "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" (Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming)
Of time & rivers flowing
The seasons make a song
And we who live beside her
Still try to sing along
Of rivers, fish & men
And the season still a-coming
When she'll run clear again
G - Em - / C D G - :// D A7 D - / 1st 2
La, la, la... (to melody of 1st 4 lines)
Then sing again the final 3 lines
So many homeless sailors
So many winds that blow
I asked the half-blind scholars
Which way the currents flow
So cast your nets below
And the gods of moving waters
Will tell us all they know
The circles of the planets
The circles of the moon
The circles of the atoms
All play a marching tune
And we who would join in
Can stand aside no long
Now let us all begin!
Kim & Reggie Harris sing sections of this song as part of their performance of Reggie's song "High Over the Hudson"