Artist: Roger McGuinn Album: Individual Songs

The river flows, it flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be
Flow river, flow - let your waters wash down
Take me from this road to some other town

All he wanted was to be free
And that's the way it turned out to be
Flow river, flow - let your waters wash down
Take me from this road to some other town

Go river, go - past the shaded tree
Flow river, flow - flow to the sea
Flow river, flow - flow to the sea

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows, even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in tryin'

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dyin'

Temptation page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be
One more person cryin'

So, don't fear when you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighin'

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destiny
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do to be nothin' more
Than something they invest in