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This song was inspired by performing an early morning concert on the bank of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu with the Greenheart, as part of a river cleanup day. The song describes the scene as we were setting up for the concert.

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Water Is Life
intro: E B E B
A E
someone’s ashes floating down the river
A B
lamp light twinkling in the dawn twilight
A E
water tossed around an ancient tree
A B
monkeys on the wires, crows in flight
A E
candles burning on the temple stairs
A B
marigold petals everywhere
A C#m
a young woman kneels by the bank to wash her hair
B E
as a young man dreams of her somewhere
E B
water is life. the river never stops
E B
water is life, the river it lives on
C#m B A
water is life, the river is us and we are it
A B E
celebrate the river with a song

as we sing and dance one dog mounts another
puppies will come, and play along these banks
before she does her washing a woman kneels in prayer
another woman sets up to sell juice she squeezes there

water is life. the river never stops
water is life, the river it lives on
water is life, the river is us and we are it
celebrate the river with a song

G#m C#m
this river came from high on the Tibetan plain
A B
it will flow to India and to the ocean make its way
G#m C#m A
someone in America may swim in water from this place

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from Singles and Out​-​takes, track released September 15, 2021
Fred Gillen Jr: electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals
Laura Bowman: vocals
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Woody's House, Croton -on- Hudson, NY 2019

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Fred Gillen Jr Athens, New York

NYFA grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr has released 12 solo albums, and 6 ep’s, has toured all over the U.S. and Europe solo, and Nepal/ India with Greenheart. His songs have been on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," CMJ, and his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on Pete Seeger's "Pete Remembers Woody." He is also a founding member of THE TRIKE rock trio. ... more

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