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Come to the River Lyrics:

Minnesota, the Mother of the Father of Waters
Raising towns like new sons and daughters
Your chance in your time is streaming by
Come to the river

Old to now, upstream to down
The river drops where the chorus falls in a song
Life is so short; the Mississippi so long
Come to the river Come to the river Come to the river

Chorus
The only falls in all the Mississippi fall here
To the first people all the Great Spirits called here
Where the city Minneapolis now stands so tall
The only falls in all the Mississippi fall here

Franklin Steele stole away in the night
From old Fort Snelling by the light of the moon
To claim by name the riparian rights
To the Falls of St. Anthony

The government word come a steamin' in
On the Steamer Palmyra let the squatting begin
There's money to be put in the east bank
In the Mississippi mills and spillways

Ten more years of the river roll by
Eighteen forty eight don’t be late
Lands cried for sale at the new townsite
At the Falls of St. Anthony

Come the pine downriver driven to the boom
Come the whirr and the whine in the claws of the sawmills
Come the hour of the water power wheeled into flour
Come to the river

Chorus