The River's Too Wide
Composer(s): Bob Morrison
First release by: Jim Mundy - 1973



The river's too wide now for crossin'
The water rushed too loud for talkin'
We never built bridges for walkin'
Now the river's too wide

A gentle stream once flowed between us
But love could cross it easily
Till stormy skies brought bitter teardrops
And made that stream a ragin' river
Come between you and me

The river's too wide now for crossin'
The water rushed too loud for talkin'
We never built bridges for walkin'
There's no getting' to the other side

The river's too wide for crossin'
The hurtin' goes too deep for mendin'
It looks like an unhappy endin'
`Cos the river's too wide

Good lessons learned are not forgotten
We gave up love to save our pride
Next time I'm faced with risin' water
I'll build a bridge of love and kindness
Reachin' to the other side

And the river's too wide now for crossin'
The water rushed too loud for talkin'
We never built bridges for walkin'
There's no getting' to the other side

The river's too wide for crossin'
The hurtin' goes too deep for mendin'
It looks like an unhappy endin'
`Cos the river's too wide

Cleveland Rocks (aka England Rocks)
Composer(s): Ian Hunter
Originally performed by: Ian Hunter
Covered by various other artists



Three! Four!
Three! Four!
Three! Four!

(Bunch of Ah-ah-ah's here)

All this energy calling me
Back where it comes from
It's such a crude attitude
It's Back where it belongs
All the little kids growing up on the skids are goin'
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Jumpin' (Jean) Gene genies, moody James Deanies goin'

Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks

Mama knows but she don't care
She's got her worries too
Seven kids and a phony affair
And the rent is due
All the little chicks with the crimson lips go
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
She's livin'in sin with a safety pin
She's goin' Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks 

Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks

I got some records from World War Two
I'll play 'em just like me Grand dad do
He was a rocker and I am too
Oh Cleveland Rocks, Yeah Cleveland Rocks
So find a place
Grab a space
and yell and scream for more

Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks

(Bunch of Ah-ah-ah's here)

Three! Four!
Three! Four!
Three! Four!
Ohio

Restless
Composer(s): Carl Perkins
First release by: Carl Perkins - 1968
Covered by multiple other artists



Well I walked up to her window
I said, gimme a ticket please
She said, where to mister?
I said, that's all right with me honey
I'm just restless
I need to get on out of town
I need to go right now
Take me where the living's easy
Baby, that's where I'll be found
Huh-huh, right now
I said, honey tell that driver
To put his big foot on that gas
Run this old grey dog
Just as long as it might last
I'm just restless
I need to get on out of town
I need to go right now
Take me where the living's easy
Baby, that's where I'll be found
Huh-huh, right now
I said, honey tell that driver
Take me farther down the road
Just take this grey dog
Any place he wants to go
I'm travelling light
Because I might be going far
Takin' nothing but the clothes on my back
And my big red guitar
Honey, I'm just restless
I need to get on out of town
Take me where the living's easy
Baby, that's where I'll be found 

River Of Life
Composer(s): Jonathan Butler
Performer(s): Jonathan Butler



Everyday, I see your face
Like a prayer, I pray each day
That my heart would be whole
And my soul be filled
And my mind nearing you, with you

With your arms open wide
I can see in my mind
Your letter just waiting for me

I run, I walk, I fly like a bird
(I run, I walk, I fly)
I swim to the sea like a [Incomprehensible]
(I swim to the sea)

But I'm drifting away
Yeah, to the river of life
Oh, to the river of life
You're my river of life

Like a tower, you're my grace
Like a shield, fear every place
Surrounding with angels, the millions above
I stand on the mountain top, you show me your love

The glory around you, is all on my head
Cleanse me from everything I've done
Everything I said

I walk, I run, I swim to the sea
(I walk, I run, I swim)
I fly like a bird, like the eagle with wings
(I fly)

And I fly to your arms, deep down inside
And I fly to your arms 'cos you're my river of life
(My river, my river, my river)
You're the river of life
(My river, my river, my river)

Yeah, I fly to the river
I run to the ocean sea
I know the flowing in me
All the sounds that I hear inside of me

River, yeah
So and I run to the ocean, I circle the sea
To the river of my destiny, to the place where I'll be
Safely in your arms tonight, 'cos you're the river of life
(The river, the river, the river)

Yeah, yeah, river of life
(The river, the river, the river)
To the river of life
(The river, the river, the river)
The river of, the river of, the river of life
(The river, the river)
Yeah, the river of life
(The river, the river, the river)

Cleopatterer
Composer(s): Jerome Kern; P.G. Wodehouse
Performer(s): Dorothy Greener
and various other artists



In days of old beside the Nile
A famous queen there dwelt
Her clothes were few
But full of style
Her figure slim and swelt

On every man that wandered by
She pulled the Theda Bara eye
And every one observed with awe
That her work was swift
But never raw

I'd be like Cleopatterer
If I could have my way
Each man she met she went and kissed.
And she'd dozens on her waiting list

I wish that I had lived there
Beside the pyramid
For a girl today don't get the scope
That Cleopatterer did

And when she tired as girls will do
Of Bill or Jack or Jim
The time had come, his friends all knew
To say goodbye to him

She couldn't stand by any means
Reproachful, stormy farewell scenes
To such coarse stuff she would not stoop
So she just put poison in his soup

When out with Cleopatterer
Men always made their wills
They knew there was no time to waste
When the gumbo had that funny taste

They'd take her hand and squeeze it
They'd murmur "Oh you kid!"
But they never liked to start to feed
Til Cleopatterer did

She danced new dances now and then
The sort that make you blush
Each time she did them, scores of men
Got injured in the rush

They'd stand there gaping in a line
And watch her agitate her spine
It simply use to knock them flat
When she went like this and then like that

At dancing Cleopatterer
Was always on the spot
She gave these poor Egyptian ginks
Something else to watch besides the spinx

Marc Antony admitted
That what first made him skid
Was the wibbly, wobbly, wiggly dance
That Cleopatterer did

Restera-T-Il Un Chant D'Oiseau
Composer(s): Claude Delecluse
Performer(s): Jean Ferrat



Que restera-t-il sur la terre
Dans cinquante ans
On empoisonne les rivières
Les océans
On mange des hydrocarbures
Que sais-je encore
Le Rhône charrie du mercure
Des poissons morts

Pour les enfants des temps nouveaux
Restera-t-il un chant d'oiseau

Le monde a perdu la boussole
Qu'a-t-il gagné
Des plages noires de pétrole
Pour se baignier
L'atome va régner sur terre
Comme un Seigneur
Qu'en ferons-nous c'est une affaire
Qui me fait peur

Pour les enfants des temps nouveaux
Restera-t-il un chant d'oiseau

A peine le malheur des hommes
Est-il moins grand
Que déjà pourrissent les pommes
Des nouveaux temps
Enfants enfants la terre est ronde
Criez plus fort
Pour que se réveille le monde
S'il n'est pas mort

Pour les enfants des temps nouveaux
Restera-t-il un chant d'oiseau

The River Of Jordan
Composer(s): Hazel Houser
Performer(s): The Louvin Brothers
and multiple other artists



To the River Of Jordan our Savior went one day
And we read that John The Baptist met Him there
And when John baptized Jesus in Jordan's rushing waters
The mighty power of God filled the air

I'm on my way to the River Of Jordan
Gonna wade right in to the rushing waters
I'm going down to the River Of Jordan
And let the cool waters cleanse my soul

King Naaman was stricken with dreaded leprosy
And he sent for the man of God to pray
But Elisha said to Naaman "go dip yourself in Jordan"
And let the cool waters wash your spots away

So he went right down to the River Of Jordan
He waded right in the rushing waters
He dipped himself in the River Of Jordan
And the cool waters made him whole

Oh the River Of Jordan is many miles away
And this mighty river I may never see
But I'll find myself an alter in an old fashioned church
And my River Of Jordan that will be

Cleopatra
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez



Resbalando los dedos por el agua
al pie de su ciudad vieja y caída
sin esclavos ni antonios, junto al Nilo
vi un día a Cleopatra compungida

Qué puede hacer un trovador entonces
sino inmediatamente enamorarse
cantar una canción, hablar un poco
tratar de hacerse ver: fingir ahogarse

Por más que quise hacer menos salía
canté y hablé quizas exagerando
pero ningún sonido le alzó el rostro
y comprendí lo que estaba pasando

Sucedía que la reina y el paisaje
que yo creía ver, había sido
la húmeda versión que me dio el rio
puesto que me encontraba sumergido

Reste Ici - 1983 (aka Tu Croiras - 1963)
(Adapted from: Stand By Me Father - 1960)
Composer(s): Sam Cooke - James Alexander
Performer(s): Johnny Hallyday - 1983

Titles In Other Languages:
1961 - Stand By Me
1965 - Pregherò
1984 - Jää Mun Luo
1989 - Op De Hoek Van De Straat



Quand la nuit revient
Comme un voile sombre et tendre
Quand ton corps vient s'étendre
Je suis bien

Je ne crains plus rien
J'ai mon cœur sur tes mains
Je te crie ouais dans la nuit
Reste ici

Je t'en prie, je t'en supplie
Reste ici
Oh! Reste avec moi
Ne pars pas reste là
Reste avec moi

Quand le monde se plaint
Quand les hommes se déchirent
Rien qu'un mot, un sourire
Et je suis bien

Je pourrai pleurer
Comme un gosse à Noël
Sur le ciel, sur ma vie
Reste ici

Je t'en prie, je t'en supplie
Reste ici
Oh! Reste avec moi
Ne pars pas, reste là
Reste avec moi

Je t'en prie, je t'en supplie
Reste ici
Oh! Reste avec moi
Ne pars pas, reste là
Reste avec moi

Je t'en prie, je t'en supplie
Reste ici
Oh! Reste avec moi
Ne pars pas, reste là
Reste avec moi

Je t'en prie, je t'en supplie
Reste ici
Oh! Reste avec moi
Ne pars pas, reste là
Reste avec moi

The River Of Dreams
Composer(s): Billy Joel
Performer(s): Billy Joel



In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To a river so deep
I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And its too hard to cross

And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down in the evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep
And I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I would never lose
Something somebody stole

I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesnt take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the jungle of doubt
To a river so deep
I know I'm searching for something
Smething so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night

I'm not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That runs to the promised land

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
In the middle of the night

Cleo
Composer(s): Lee S. Roberts - J. Will Callahan



Pale moonlight! 
A wondrous night! 
My fancy takes its flight to Rainbow Isle
Swaying trees a truant breeze 
All bring you to me just for a while

Some June night love's magic light 
May guide your boat a right to Rainbow Isle
O'er the sea of memory 
Some time, in the golden 
After while

Cleo, I see only you
And the dream makes me lonesome and blue
Brings back that moment divine 
When I fancied your heart answered mine 
Cleo, 'twill be only you 
And I'd give all this world if you knew
Just how I'm yearning, and wait for your returning 
Come back to me
My Cleo, do!

Reste Encore Avec Moi
Italian Title: Non Mi Dire Chi Sei
Composer(s): G. Calabrese; 
U. Bindi; P.Delanoë
Performer(s): Dalida



Reste encore avec moi le temps de te dire un dernier je t'aime
Après tu partiras mais tu te souviendras
De nos anciennes joies quoi qu'il advienne

Reste encore avec moi le temps de pleurer mes dernières larmes
Après je sourirai, après je le promets
Je ne t'ennuierai plus jamais

Je voudrai tant que tu gardes en toi
Le souvenir de l'amour qui meurt
Je voudrai tant que viennent parfois
Danser mon ombre dans l'ombre de ton bonheur

Reste encore avec moi le temps de te dire un dernier je t'aime
Elles ont pour moi tant de prix les secondes
Où finit ma vie ou dans mon cœur tout s'effondre

Reste encore avec moi le temps de te dire un dernier je t'aime
Tu l'emporteras dans ton cœur dans tes rêves
Ce mot de bonheur qui vient mourir sur mes lèvres

Tu le sais ton départ c'est la fin de ce monde
De ce monde
Pour moi

The River Is Wide
Composer(s): Nick Reynolds
Performer(s): The Kingston Trio



The river is wide, I cannot see
Nor do I have light wings to fly
There'll be a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

My love is like the lofty tree
It shudders fears and then sways free
If it should fade when the summer's through
She'll bloom again when Spring shines through

When love is young, then love is fine
Just like a gem when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

The river is wide, I cannot see
Nor do I have light wings to fly
There'll be a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

Clémentine
Composer(s): Jean Rougeul - Christiane Verger
Performer(s): Yves Montand



Sous un léger corsage qui fait des plis
Deux petits seins bien sages
Comme c'est joli
J'allais vers la colline
Sous un grand ciel tout bleu
Et je voyais briller les yeux
De Clémentine, de Clémentine

Elle descendait sur le chemin
Disait bonjour avec sa main
J'avais seize ans comme elle
Je la trouvais si belle
Que je n'osais pas lui parler
Et sur le bord de la rivière
Je la regardais s'en aller
Ses cheveux blonds comme une crinière
Et son jupon flottant si haut
Qu' on voyait ses jarretières
Elle a trébuché sur une pierre
Elle est tombée dans l'eau

Sous un léger corsage qui fait des plis
Deux petits seins bien sages
Comme c'est joli
J'allais vers la colline
Sous un grand ciel tout bleu
Et je voyais briller les yeux
De Clémentine, de Clémentine

Quand je l'ai vue tomber dans l'eau
Moi j'ai couru dans les roseaux
J'avais seize ans comme elle
Je ta trouvais si belle
Que j'ai plongé pour la sauver
Mais j'ai coulé dans la rivière
Car je ne savais pas nager
C'est elle qui m'a ramené à terre
Toute mouillée contre mon corps
Sa poitrine était douce
Nous étions couchés sur la mousse
Elle m' a serré très fort

Un peu beaucoup et même
À la folie
La première fois qu'on aime
Comme c'est joli
Les amours enfantines
Quels secrets merveilleux
Je vois toujours briller les yeux
De Clémentine, de Clémentine

Reste
Composer(s): Pierre Bayle; Jacques Simonot
Performer(s): Edith Piaf



On s'était quittés tous les deux
Et, brusquement, là, c'est curieux
On se retrouve face à face
On croyait ne plus se revoir
Puisqu'après une scène, un soir
Je t'ai dit: "Pars! Que tout s'efface!"
Maintenant que tout est bien fini
Et que nos cœurs se sont repris
Ne pensons plus qu'aux jolis gestes
Causons en amis, simplement
Non! Ne pars pas! Rien qu'un moment...
Allons, voyons, je t'en prie...
Reste...

Reste, que nous parlions un peu
Du temps où nous étions heureux
Car nous le fûmes, j'imagine
En cet instant mon cœur ému
Vraiment, ne se rappelle plus...
Que de nos minutes divines
Le mal que nous nous sommes fait
Petit à petit, disparaît
Lorsque j'évoque tout le reste
Ta main frémit entre mes doigts...
Tu te rappelles... alors pourquoi
Vouloir t'en aller déjà?
Reste...

Reste! A moins qu'au fond de ton cœur
Plus rien existe, j'en ai peur
Ta vie serait-elle à une autre?
...Oui? Alors, tu ne me m'aimes plus!
Un nouvel amour est venu
Remplacer la trace du nôtre
Ah! Tu vas la retrouver ce soir...
Aussi, quel désir, quel espoir
En toi soudain se manifestent
Oh non! Pas encore! Je ne veux pas!...
Tu n'iras pas entre ses bras!
Tu n'iras pas, entends-tu?
Reste!

Reste! Oh pardon!... Je souffre trop!
Je suis là et je dis des mots
Qui te laissent voir ma détresse...
Sans toi, chaque nuit je pleurais
Et, te retrouvant, j'espérais
Au moins un élan de tendresse...
Mais quoi? Des larmes dans tes yeux?
Est-ce un remords, est-ce un adieu?
Vois, je n'ai plus qu'un dernier geste
Et c'est de t'offrir mon pauvre cœur
Où survit tout notre bonheur...
Oh! Chéri!... Tu restes!... Tu restes...

The River Is Wide
Composer(s): Baker Knight - Billy Admire
Performer(s): The Grassroots; Forum



The sky was clear on that windy day
'Til the clear blue sky began to turn to gray
The lightning flashed, the thunder roared above
Then fell a drop of rain to start our love

Let the river get wide, the river gets long, now
The water runs deep as our love gets strong now
So baby don't you fight and say you belong now to me...

Upon the roof we heard the gentle rain
Wth the rhythm of our heartbeats down it came
As it hit each rock our hearts could feel the pain
No one on earth can stop a drop of rain

And the river get wide, the river gets long, now
The water runs deep as our love gets strong now
So baby don't you fight and say you belong now to me...

Let the river get wide, the river gets long, now
The water runs deep as our love gets strong now
So baby don't you fight and say you belong now to me, yea

Let the river get wide, the river gets long, now
The water runs deep as our love gets strong now
So baby don't you fight and say you belong now to me

Let the river get wide, the river gets long, now

Clementine
Composer(s): Woody Harris
Performer(s): Bobby Darin



In a cavern down by a canyon 
Excavatin' for a mine
There lived a miner from North Carolina 
And his daughter, chubby Clementine

Now every mornin', just about dawnin' 
A'when the sun begins to shine 
You know she would rouse up, wake all a dem cows up 
And walk 'em down to her Daddy's mine

A'took the foot bridge, way 'cross the water 
Though she weighed two-ninety nine
The old bridge trembled and disassembled 
(Oops!) dumped her into the foamy brine

Hey, crackle like thunder, (ho, ho) she went under 
(ho, ho) blowin bubbles (bubble sound) down the line
Hey, I'm no swimm'a but were she slimm'a 
I might'a saved that Clementine

(Ho) broke the record, way under water 
I thought that she was doin' fine. 
I wasn't nervous ya until the service 
That they held for Clementine 

Hey you sailor (ho, ho) way out in your whaler 
With a harpoon, your trusty line
If she shows now, yo, there she blows now
It just may be chunky Clementine

(One more time) 
Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my darlin' 
Oh my darlin', oh my darlin' sweet Clementine
You may be gone 
But! 
You're not forgotten
Fare thee well 
So long, Clementine 
(Bubble sound) Bye!

Reste
Composer(s): Charles Aznavour
Performer(s): Charles Aznavour



Reste
Reste encore
Avec moi
Sur mon corps
Dans mes bras
Enlacée
Essoufflée
Assouvie
Etourdie
Reste au chaud
Alanguie
Dans l'enclos
De la nuit
Sur mon cœur
Sans pudeur
Eperdue
Presque nue

Reste ainsi
Sur ta faim
Sur ma vie
Dans mes mains
Décoiffée
Possédée
Etendue
Détendue
Reste là
Sans un mot
Sur ta joie
Sur ma peau
Dans l'espoir
Dans le noir
Jusqu'au jour
Mon amour

The River
Composer(s): Bruce Springsteen
Performer(s): Bruce Springsteen



I come from down in the valley
Where mister, when you're young
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
And, man, that was all she wrote
And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse,
that sends me 
Down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
My baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

Clear Night Moonlight
Composer(s): Barry Hay - George Kooymans
Performer(s): Golden Earring



I wanna go ahead until I just run out of gas
We gotta beat the road with four-wheel thunder
There's a Cadillac dealer in Kansas City counting money
And the highway patrol ain't going nowhere

Don't say no, don't say no, don't make me grieve
Don't say no, don't say no, you gotta feel the breeze

On a clear night yeah, moonlight yeah
You and me and the car
Under a thousands stars
Clear night yeah, moonlight yeah
That's all the magic we need
So, don't you go turnin' my dream into a nightmare

Come on honey, let's ride right out of here
Imagine you and I, leavin' it all behind
Find another world, beyond the turnpike
There'll be lots of people uptight
Maybe some FBI, and your daddy screamin' bloody murder

Don't say no, don't say no, don't make me grieve
Don't say no, don't say no, you gotta feel the breeze

On a clear night yeah, moonlight yeah
You and me and the car
Under a thousands stars
Clear night yeah, moonlight yeah
That's all the magic we need
So, don't you go turnin' my dream into a nightmare

Come on honey, let's ride right out of here
Picture the two of us, we're so happy, so much in love
You know how the story goes
At the end of the rainbow
There's a bag of gold