Pete Seeger

Letra The sloop clearwater Pete Seeger

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The sloop clearwater


I was sitting on my front porch as I watched the river rot,
Thinking about the sturgeon that are gone but not forgot
And the buffalo an restless underneath the prairie sod
And the smoke stacked up to heaven so's it hid the face of God

There were soldiers marching by my door and a tap upon my phone
And a freeway inching toward me that would someday eat my home
And the smokestacks hid a sunset that would never come again
When they brought the Sloop Clearwater a-sailing 'round the bend.

The captain had a mustache that was fourteen inches long
And the shanty master paced the deck a-roaring out a song
And the man who held the tiller wore his hair down to his knees
And a hundred tons of canvas billowed out into the breeze.

But Redwood trees are crashing down out on the Western coast
And an angry shadowy army follows Crazy Horse's ghost
And the eagle's nest's as barren as the mountain lion's den
On the day the Sloop Clearwater came sailing 'round the bend.

The ship cut through the sewage lying on the river's face
And the sloop docked in the garbage that was all around the place
And the crew struck up a hornpipe and the boots rang on the wood
And the sound fell on the river and the river found it good.

But there's lightening in the Asian sky and thunder in the slums
You can hear the Indians tuning up their long forgotten drums
Children clap their hands and laugh as men are killing men
On the day the Sloop Clearwater came a-sailing 'round the bend.

I said you people all are fools to laugh and sing and shout
When your ship's so deep in liquid shit it never will get out
When children cry from hunger and grown men get mean from shame
And a war rages in every heart and the very ground's in flame.

You sail your dirty river and you sing your little songs
You dance your pretty dances and recite your petty wrongs
Don't you know that Abiyoyo's making footprints in the fen
While you bring your Sloop Clearwater a-sailing 'round the bend.

The crew just laughed and danced some more and the beads began to fling
And beards were lifted to the skies as the crew began to sing
A black man rose upon the deck and he preached a sermon there
And a crewman capered on the mast like a dancing grizzly bear.

I said you people all are fools but I guess I am one too
And it seems the guns went quiet then and the river all was new
The smoke clouds cleared and I almost wept to see the skies again
As they brought that Sloop Clearwater a-sailing 'round the bend.

The mountains rang as children laughed and women raised a song
The bison thundered down the plains a hundred thousand strong
The Ghost Dance tent was raised again and the Lion wandered free
And the rivers ran like silver from the mountains to the sea.

There was love and joy and brotherhood and peace the world around
There was life and paint and energy and trees and taste and sound
And Abiyoyo danced a solemn waltz out in the fen
When they brought the Sloop Clearwater a-sailing 'round the bend.

Now the sloop is gone and once again I watch the river rot
And someone feels the skyfire and another hugs the shot
And the heart of man is angry and the land of man is mad
And the air of man chokes on itself and the rivers all are sad.

We war against each other and we fight with our own souls
And we've killed off every river and our blood is icy cold
But a spark of joy jumps in my breast as I remember when
They brought that Sloop Clearwater a-sailing 'round the bend

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Biografia

Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes.

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