The Songs of River Road

River Road

River Road, Track 4 - 4:39
G Pruden / T Longbottom

The mixed-blood cultures of Red River Colony grew up along the banks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. This is the Métis heartland.

I was born on River Road
The clothes I wore my mother sewed
Past our door the Red River flowed
Like a mother's endless love on River Road

Chorus
I'm going home to River road
It's funny how you find
The things that you were looking for
Are the things you left behind
I long to hear the river's song
Breathe the air so clean and cold
To wake up in the place I love
Back home in River Road

We had a farm on River Road
My daddy hunted the buffalo
My brothers and my sisters we shared the load
No I never felt alone on River Road

I'm going home to River road
It's funny how you find
The things that you were looking for
Are the things you left behind
This wandering heart grows weary now 
And all my dreams grow old
I hear a sweet voice calling me
Back home in River Road

I got itchy feet on River Road
I was 17 thought that I'd explode
How all my dreams of freedom glowed
They led me far away from River Road

I'm a thousand miles  from River Road
Still paying for the debts I owed
I've reaped the bitter seeds I sowed
I need to find my way back to River Road

I'm going home to River road
It's funny how you find
The things that you were looking for
Are the things you left behind
When all my melodies are sung
And all my stories told
The ones I love will welcome me
Back home to River Road