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Happy Thanksgiving! For Native Americans rivers were a highway and a rich and abundant source of food. Wild rice grew in the shallows, fish were abundant and the riverbanks teemed with life. Today the Mississippi River continues to feed people as massive barges transport grain from thousands of Midwestern farm fields down river to world markets. This selection is from the new album "Great Mississippi." Click on Recordings to place your order!
A Capella and Wooden Spoons
Play Sample
Refrain:
Pass the bowl, oh oh, pass the bowl
Verses:
The wild rice, tall and slender
Out in the fields the wheat has risen
Oh, oh, river, pass the bowl
Pass the bowl, oh, oh, pass the bowl
Oh, oh, river, pass the bowl
Growing in quiet water
The canoe will bring it closer
Pass the bowl
This rice is like a treasure
A gift from the river
Ripe and ready for the knocker
Pass the bowl (refrain)
Planted by machines in rhythm
To the weather and the season
Pass the bowl
This grain is like a treasure
Take it down upon the river
Around the world to the cook and baker
Pass the bowl
Previous Songs: Gypsy Woody * Rainfall Has Turned to Snow * I Like It Here/O Cold and Misery * Winter on the Farm * Darling * Fine Old Lady * The Teton Dam * Towboat * Ozawindib * The Hinkley Fire * Fall Is Here
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