My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song) chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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Sailing down
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my dirty stream
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Still I love it and I'll keep the dream
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That some day,
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though maybe not this year
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My Hudson River will once
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again run clear

Verse 2
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It starts high in the mountains
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of the north
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Crystal clear and icy trickles forth
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With just a few floating wrap
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pers of chewing gum
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Dropped by some hikers to
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warn of things to come
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At Glens Falls,

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Verse 3

five thousand honest hands

Work at the consolidated

paper plant

Five million gallons of waste a day

Why should we do it any

other way?

Verse 4
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Down the valley one million toilet chains
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Find my Hudson so convenient
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place to drain
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And each little city says, "Who, me?
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Do you think that sewage
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plants come free?"

Verse 5
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Out in the ocean they say
the water's clear
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But I   live right at Beacon here
Half way between the
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mountains and sea
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Tacking to  and fro,
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this thought re turns to me

Verse 6
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Well it's Sailing up my dirty stream
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Still I love it and I'll dream
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That some day,
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though maybe not this year
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My Hudson and my country
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will run clear
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