Name: River By The Sea (Collab)
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Channel: Dean Taylor-Laurel Varner
Description: "River By The Sea (Collab)" is a song by Laurel Varner. Dean Taylor sent me the lyrics,I made up the music,then we got Amy Caldwell to sing it for us.

River By The Sea (Collab)

Laurel Varner

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Dean Taylor sent me the lyrics,I made up the music,then we got Amy Caldwell to sing it for us.

Laurel Varner

I'm just a 56 year old cement mixer driver who gets laid off every winter for 3 months.I enjoy writing songs and recording them myself at home on my 8 track Boss BR864 recorder.It's just another one of my many hobbies.I just do it for kicks.Just laid back musical enjoyment. I have lots of originals and collabs on my page.My originals are are true stories about me,or people I know,or how I feel about things.Collabs are all efforts of me and my Soundclick friends.Doing collabs is my favorite thing here on Soundclick.Hope ya enjoy some of the tunes.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country General

Charts

Peak #340

Peak in subgenre #106

Author

Dean Taylor-Laurel Varner

Uploaded

November 17, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:07

Story behind the song

Another internet collab between soundclick friends.Dean Taylor,Amy Caldwell,and myself,Laurel Varner.

Lyrics

River By The Sea"
(Taylor/Varner)

VERSE 1 
I grew up by a river, 
a river by the sea
Everybody there got wet
Everybody water-skied 
Everybody fished
We all ran the crab traps
Even now, I can taste that salt,
and I crave to go back

CHORUS 
To the river by the sea
Where I ran free
Barefoot, suntanned,
mermaid growin’ in the sand 
the river by the sea
The river by the sea

CHORUS 

VERSE 2 
Now I live in the city,
a city with no sea
Livin’ here has got its perks,
but there ain’t no sailin’ breeze
Ain’t no porpoise fins,
no big spaces to roam
Anytime I see a wide sky,
Oh I wanna go home

CHORUS

BRIDGE
At night when the shrimp would run,
we’d go to the bridge
Dippin’ down with our long pole net(s)
Everybody brought the kids

CHORUS 

TAG
I thought it belonged to me
The river by the sea

END

© 2006 by Laurel Varner & Dean Brantley Taylor

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Rosie Clare

May 22, 2008

Nice job on this one! I'm a fan of Amy, always like her harmonies. I see you are from Iowa too! I'm originally from Burlington but can't say I remember Mystic, IA........is it by Ames? Great lyrics! My river by the sea growing up was the good ole Mississippi!!

Rosie