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"Where the River Flows" is a song by American rock band Collective Soul, appearing on the band's 1995 eponymous album. The song was released as the fifth and final single from the album. "Where the River Flows" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, becoming the band's fourth
The Red River is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed. [4] It also is known as the Red River of the South to distinguish it from the Red River of the North, which flows between Minnesota and North Dakota into the Canadian province of Manitoba.
"Danny Boy" – one of the most popular Ireland-related songs, though the lyrics were written by an Englishman and only later set to an Irish tune [58] "Easy and Slow" – a Dublin song of somewhat constant innuendo [24] "Eileen Oge" – by Percy French, also played as a reel [59] "The Ferryman" – by Pete St. John, set in Dublin
The Jimmie Davis Bridge over the Red River on Louisiana State Highway 511, connecting Shreveport and Bossier City Jimmie Davis Tabernacle west of Quitman. The Jimmie Davis Tabernacle is located near Weston in Jackson Parish. The tabernacle hosts occasional gospel singing.
In its soundtrack, the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas adapted the lyrics and tune of "Red River Valley" as "New Vegas Valley". The first four verses of the chant "Scouser Tommy", sung by supporters of Liverpool F.C., is to the tune of "Red River Valley".
Until the ground around me within her blood did flow I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and around Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyes Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride
Fonda also wanted Dylan to write the film's theme song, but Dylan declined, quickly scribbling the lines, "The river flows, it flows to the sea/Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be/Flow, river, flow" on a napkin and telling Fonda to "give this to McGuinn.
The earliest known version of the lyrics was written by Alex McDade, of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade and published in 1938 in The Book of the XV International Brigade by the Commissariat of War, Madrid, 1938. [2] It is squarely a soldier's song; grumbling about the boredom, lack of leave and lack of female company.