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The Sugar Nile Revisited

from The Water Balloon by Sam Russell & the Harborrats

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lyrics

let's go down the sugar nile
sail it for a little while
close our eyes and travel a whole mile
forget about worries and cares
where they're not, we will be there
we'll go riding down the sugar nile

baby let's sail away on a red river that flows
with a beat-up Elmo doll you got when just two-years old
he'll lead us on a cow to a boat in the harbor
and we'll sail towards we what can't yet remember:

the taste of Grandma's candy
an unscattered and close family

I was swallowed by the harbor when I was just a child
Uncle Joe would walk us there and I'd see my mother smile
then cinnamon would fall and I'd keep trying to get back to
that moment as life's mission I'm trying to tell to you

baby I want you to believe
understand I was born with need

to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride oh to ride

I know you're worried I keep craving and I'll never be done
as I worry I take too much and baby you're too young
to want to shatter prisms sweet and fight to find in mystery
a clear path as a way back that so easily could lead

to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride ride ride on the sugar nile
to ride oh to ride

credits

from The Water Balloon, released June 5, 2012
Sam Russell-vocals, guitar
Allison Tulloss-vocals, flute
Michael Spaly-mandolin, fiddle, vocals
John Tomlinson-Hammond B3
James Apollo-harmonica, vocals
Schuyler Jones-bass
Ken Nottingham-2nd bass, vocals
Kjell Anderson-fiddle
Toby Hanson-accordion
Carey Rayburn-trumpet
Dave Forrester-drums
Isaac Chirino-percussion

recorded by Conrad Uno at Egg Studios, Seattle, WA
mixed by Johnny Sangster at Electrokitty Studios, Seattle, WA

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