Wide, Wide River
Composer(s): Lionel Goldbart; Ken Weaver
Performer(s): The Fugs



River of shit
River of shit
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
Right from my toes
On up to my nose
Flow on, flow on, river of shit
I've been swimming 
In this river of shit
More than 20 years 
And I'm getting tired of it
Don't like swimming 
Hope it'll run dry
Got to go on swimming
'Cause I don't want to die

Oh I can feel another 1000 years
Of the flapjacks of Sorrow! 
Unless!
Unless we make 2000 A.D.! 
2000 A.D.
Our glorious deadline
A glorious deadline to make the
World a better place!
Or else the flapjacks of sorrow 
Are going to slide down our throats
Slide down our throats 
For another millenium
Of pain and war and oppression
And all our children's children's children's
Children's children children
Shall have to wade and to swim
In the same grim river
In which we now swim
Sing along with us
Sing sing sing sing sing sing sing sing!
(Repeat first verse)