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Joe Harvard and Kelly Knapp - Riverboats

from Buy American - 1984: the Year at So​-​So by Joe Harvard

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written by Joe Harvard; vocals by Kelly Knapp & JH
illustration from an original photo by Wayne Podworny, Kelly and Joe at Middle East Restaurant 1988.

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c. 2011 Little Big Horn Publishing, BMI

By the light of the Riverboats
Beneath the sweet magnolia and the weeping heads of the willows
I could see Brenda Lee but she couldn’t see me
Neither one of us would ever be free.
By the light of the Riverboats

Three A.M. in the morning picking tobacco and puttin’ up cotton in the swelter
Make my way in the night when the time seems right
I hope that the stars lead me home, true, to the Savannah

Lay me down. Give me water.
I got a fearful burnin’, a grapeshot bite and then the hunger
But I think I see Heaven coming over the rise
There’s a songbird singin’ and the soothing hands of my Momma

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from Buy American - 1984: the Year at So​-​So, released January 4, 1985
Kelly Knapp - vocals
Joe Harvard - instruments and vocals

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Joe Harvard Asbury Park, New Jersey

"VU & Nico" author, producer-artist-musician
LP creds: Dinosaur, Jr, Pernice Brothers, Throwing Muses etc; spiritual midwife to tons more as co-founder/owner of Fort Apache '85-'93.
An East Bostonian based [One Banned Man, Dub Proof, Doctor Danger, Cockwalkers] in NJ & MOTH NYC Storyslam Champ '01; loves cats. Asbury Music Awards: Top Americana '09/Top Multi-Instrumentalist & Top Avant-Garde '10.
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