| 4 a.m. comes awful early, and I was dead on my feet
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| But if you gonna catch the biggest fish
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| You gotta lose a little sleep
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| Well, I pack my gear and a couple beers
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| I headed for my favorite spot
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| Well, I curse my luck when I saw his truck right where I pulled off
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| Was hoping to have the river to myself that day
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| 'Cause the river don’t talk, the river don’t care
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| Where you’ve been, what you’ve done
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| Why it is your standin' there
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| It just rolls on by whisperin' to your soul
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| It’s gonna be alright, the river just knows
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| The way the sun bounced off the water
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| I could hardly make him out
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| But I could see he had a fish on
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| A big ole rainbow trout
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| The fight went on forever
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| And as they headed down my way, I saw his
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| military hair cut and the new scars on his face
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| Right then I knew what brought him to this place
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| You know the river don’t talk, the river don’t care
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| Where you’ve been, what you’ve done
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| Don’t know why it is your standin' there
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| It just rolls on by whisperin' to your soul
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| It’s gonna be alright, the river just knows
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| He held that fish down in the water
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| And he coaxed it to back to life
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| He said «Help, you get your wind back
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| 'Cause you help me get mine»
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| And all I could think to say was «Welcome home»
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| But I think that river said it best on its own
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| You know the river don’t talk, the river don’t care
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| Where you’ve been, what you’ve done
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| Don’t know why it is your standin' there
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| It just rolls on by whisperin' to your soul
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| It’s gonna be alright, the river just knows
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| It’s gonna be alright, the river just knows
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| It just knows… |