Biography:
James Darrell Scott known as Darrell Scott (b August 6, 1959, London, Kentucky), the son of musician Wayne Scott with whom he has collaborated, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was playing professionally by his teens in Southern California, later living in Toronto and Boston. He attended Tufts University, where he studied poetry and literature.
In 2010, he recorded and toured as part of Robert Plant's "Band of Joy" project.
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Other songs:
- You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
- Aint No Easy Way
- Day After Day
- Down To The River
- East Of Gary
- I Still Miss Someone
- Long Time Gone
- My Fathers House
- River Take Me
- Someday
- Take Me Back To Yesterday
- The One Im Still Thinking About
- The Open Door
- There Aint No Easy Way
- Uncle Lloyd
- Weary Blues From Waiting
- With A Memory Like Mine
- Youll Never Leave Harlan Alive
- Youre Everything I Wanted Love To Be
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It's been rainy and windy for seven days straight
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I've been going to bed early and getting up late
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I look out my window and it's one shade of gray
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Oh, my wife and my kids don't have much to say
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A man out of work only gets in the way
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Oh, the river is rising now, one inch an hour
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And tonight we'll be lucky if we still have power
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But I got a flashlight, an oil lamp and I'm ready to go
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And a fresh set of batteries for my son's radio
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If the dam really breaks, least we'll know where to go
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River take me, river take me
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River take me far from trouble time
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River take me, river take me
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River take me far from trouble tiiiiiime
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If I had a boat you know what I'd do?
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I'd float me and my family down to Baton Rouge
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I wouldn't work in no factory, I'd live off the land
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And live within means of my own two hands
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Dance Saturday nights to a Zydeco band
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Oh, the river flows and a young man dreams
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And the river can drown you or it can wash you clean
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It can take you away to some far away place
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It can power your cities, carry your waste
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And give all that you drink a peculiar taste
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Oh, don't look to me, I've done my time
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You see I've had too many dreams for this one heart of mine
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And I've stood on the bridge with the river below
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Feeling all of the sadness that a proud man could hold
F C G Am E7
Oh, the river is full but there's no way to go
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Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
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River take me far from trouble time
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River take me, river take me
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River take me far from trouble time
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River take me, river take me
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River take me far from trouble tiiiiiime
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Am
F C G Am
F C G Am
[Verse 1]
F C G Am
It's been rainy and windy for seven days straight
F C G Am
I've been going to bed early and getting up late
F C G Am
I look out my window and it's one shade of gray
F C G Am
Oh, my wife and my kids don't have much to say
F C G Am
A man out of work only gets in the way
[Verse 2]
F C G Am
Oh, the river is rising now, one inch an hour
F C G Am
And tonight we'll be lucky if we still have power
F C G Am
But I got a flashlight, an oil lamp and I'm ready to go
F C G Am
And a fresh set of batteries for my son's radio
F C G Am E7
If the dam really breaks, least we'll know where to go
[Chorus]
Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
Am C F C G Am
River take me far from trouble time
Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
Am C F F C
River take me far from trouble tiiiiiime
G D F C E7
Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhhhhhhhh
[Verse 3]
F C G Am
If I had a boat you know what I'd do?
F C G Am
I'd float me and my family down to Baton Rouge
F C G Am
I wouldn't work in no factory, I'd live off the land
F C G Am
And live within means of my own two hands
F C G Am E7
Dance Saturday nights to a Zydeco band
[Instrumental]
F C G Am
F C G Am
Am
[Verse 3]
F C G Am
Oh, the river flows and a young man dreams
F C G Am
And the river can drown you or it can wash you clean
F C G Am
It can take you away to some far away place
F C G Am
It can power your cities, carry your waste
F C G Am
And give all that you drink a peculiar taste
[Verse 4]
F C G Am
Oh, don't look to me, I've done my time
F C G Am
You see I've had too many dreams for this one heart of mine
F C G Am
And I've stood on the bridge with the river below
F C G Am
Feeling all of the sadness that a proud man could hold
F C G Am E7
Oh, the river is full but there's no way to go
[Chorus]
Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
Am C F C G Am
River take me far from trouble time
Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
Am C F C G Am
River take me far from trouble time
Am C Am C
River take me, river take me
Am C F F C
River take me far from trouble tiiiiiime
G D F C E7
Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhhhhhhhh
F C G D F C E7
Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhhhhhhhh
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