I go through big cities
I go through small towns.
factories and farms.
highways and railroad tracks
mountains and hills
fields and meadows.
prairies and plains.
I am in the east, west, north, south.
I go on for hundreds of miles or thousands of miles.
I am a river. I am a river.
I flow and flow and flow. I go and go and go.
I want everybody to know.
All day. all night.
Week after week. Year after year.
Minute after minute. Hour after hour. The power.
I am a river. I am a river.
I proudly flow. I want everybody to know.
You can watch me go.
I proudly sing. These words all.
In every winter winter and spring summer, fall,
I am a river. I am a river.
I can be very short, or very long. I can be weak or strong. I can flow for miles and miles and miles.
I flow to the Atlantic. I flow to the Pacific.
I flow to the Gulf of Mexico, or a bigger river.
I have names like Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Platt, Hudson.
I am a river. I am a river.
And I am the sea
Into which you emptee