Rainforest Jukebox - The Water Song ( Shanto)

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THE WATER SONG
©1981 by Frog
Performed by Shanto

from the tape "Earth First!"
by John Seed, Bahloo, Soozah and friends

2nd Track: "Ballad of Mount Nardi"
by Soozah Clark

I see the river flowing down
While I stand here on the shore
And I watch the water turning brown
And I wonder "how much more
Can we take from you?"

The machines of death, they came to-day
With a promise of more pain
Crushing trees and people in their way
To-morrow they'll be here again
Doing what they did to-day

Now I'm standing here in Nimbin town
It's enough to make you weep
Your apathy just brings me down
Are you really all asleep?
Or only dreaming

I see the river flowing down
While I stand here on the shore
And I watch the water turning brown
And I wonder "What for?
Why do you do this?"

JS:"This song was written in 1981 by a New Zealand guy called Frog. He had been part of the Mount Nardi blockade for 6 weeks that fateful Wednesday morning when the police and loggers finally stormed the mountain. Several semi's carrying dozers and other equipment, escorted by numerous police vehicles roared up the mountain road at 4AM hoping to catch the protest camp asleep. Instead they were greeted by a dead car burning in the middle of the road and a blockade that it took them hours to break. Frog was arrested later that morning by the new gates that the police erected across Googarna Rd. He wrote the song on the street of Nimbin as he waited for a lift to take him back up to the protest camp on Mt Nardi, (now Nightcap National Park) later that fateful day A few day after they started logging the mountain, there was a storm and down below we watched the crystal purity of Mulgum Creek (feeding the village of Nimbin’s water supply)turn to mud."