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Lyrics for Delaware River by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Delaware River | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 191 | | | | Lyrics: | The Delaware River
(Mark Cohen 1983)
A second repeat of the
chorus may be added at the very end if sung in the
broadest Philadelphia accent. [Hint:
''water'' is pronounced ''wooder.'']
Hi, ho, the Delaware River,
It's gloomy and
grimy and makes quite a stink.
In Philly they'll feed you the finest of foods
But it's
Delaware water you drink.
'Way up in the North as a trick'lin' stream
The Delaware's
born in a small mountain pass.
They call that the headwater, so it might seem
That makes
Philadelphia the Delaware's . . . port.
Now, fishin' the Delaware's not too much fun,
But
once I met quite a successful young man --
He told me that it was most easily done
By
baiting his hook with a Budweiser can.
There's a river in Cleveland, the great
Cuyahoga,
Caught fire one day just like it had been hexed,
And the people from Tinicum up
to Tioga
Will tell you the Delaware's gonna be next.
Our fair city boasts of another
fine creek,
Spelled S-C-H-U-Y-L-K-I-L-L.
A friend of mine drank from the Schuylkill* last
week
Now he's asking for Delaware water in Hell.
[* pronounced
''skookle''
@river @drink
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