For example: "Flow, river flow, past the shady tree, Go, river go, go to the sea..." (The Byrds, "The Ballad of Easy Rider")
Also, are there any songs out there that use the cliche in a particularly creative way?
― Joe, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
teh only thing remotely creative to do with that song were our hanfd movements we came up with when we sused it for a liturgical dance/expression thing in 1987....
― Queen G, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― geeta, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
[Chorus:] Like a river flowing into the sea You touch me so deep Like the sun up in the sweet summer sky It's your love that shines in my life
or something like that
― JB, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michael, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― MarkH, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That would be based on Paddle-to-the-Sea, a great mid-century kid's book by Holling Clancy Hollings, if I remember his name right. In the book, the Native American kid lives to the north of Lake Superior near Lake Nipigon, so it makes sense that the boat could eventually hit the Atlantic...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― o. nate, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link