The River - Gates & Goodell original rehearsal rough
The River, again from our 2007 CD "Can Life Be So Simple" is our fourth "original rehearsal rough" video. John & Bill get together for 5-6 hours most weeks to snack, practice originals, maybe WRITE originals, and maybe learn a cover or two. Often we decide to shoot a quick "rough" video for posterity! Look for the studio version of this one in the "music videos" section here, or on pretty much all streaming platforms!
John Gates - Taylor 514 CE, guitar and harmony vocals
Bill Goodell - Guild JF30 Jumbo 12 (Marilyn) guitar and lead vocals
Written by Bill Goodell
Arranged by Gates & Goodell
Way down by the river, way off like some other land...
way out where good people never go, play another one night stand.
Look up at the spotlight. Look out at another crowd...
Look out, there's a stranger in your veins...
...makes you wanna sing out loud
You wish, you hope, you will but you don't don't even know...
what the future holds, and where you've been is just the past.
And so you'll go, night after night, to sing like every note will be your last
Long lines at each doorway, and more lines upon your face
More cracks on the face of your guitar, as you wander place to place.
And so you'll look up at that spotlight, look out at another cowd
Look out, there's that stranger in your veins...
... makes you wanna sing out loud
You wish, you hope, you will but you don't don't even know...
what the future holds, more of the same? Who's to tell?
Show after show, as every mile unfolds, you'll sing those songs...
... they know so well...
...'cause you don't know what the future holds, and where you've been...
... is just the past.
And so you'll go, night after night, to sing like every note will be your last
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