Top Five Songs.... about or that mention Rivers

colthe3rd

The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene
River in the Road - Queens of the Stone Age
Travelling Riverside Blues - Led Zep
Ride the River - Eric Clapton

floydandharvey

The East River - Jeffrey Lewis
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
On Reaching The Wensum - Half Man Half Biscuit
This Is A Low - Blur
Dirty Old Town* - Ewan MacColl/The Pogues

*canal rather than river, if I can get away with it

stonemuse

The Riverflow - Levellers

floydandharvey

[cite]Posted By: RalphMilnesgut[/cite]Dirty Water - The Standells. One of my favourite songs and played at Red Sox games

Only when we win.

stonemuse

Banks of the Hudson - Black 47
Misty Morning Albert Bridge - Pogues
Winding River Roe - Cara Dillon
Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes
Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
Every River - Runrig
The Broad Majestic Shannon - Shane MacGowan

floydandharvey

I notice with some consternation that less than a quarter of Charlton fans seem capacle of counting up to five

Mark Curtis

Stand and Deriver - Adam & the Ants
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Thamestations
Sign your name - Terrence "Trent" Darby

Algarveaddick

[cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]
Morrissey - Come Back to Camden - "Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames"

My mate wrote the tune to that one!

Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival.

101

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]So much tension on here. Need some light relief

Top Five River Songs

Pissing in a river - Patti Smith

River - Joni Mitchell

Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff

Take me to the river - Al Green

Down to the River - Neil Young

Tension not from me Henners :-). Surely thers only one VFR mentions the only river worth mentioning.

idealworld

A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

golfaddick

somwhere down the crazy river - robbie robertson

the river - bruce springsteen

March51

'Just Messing About on the River' : Jimmy er , something: used to be played on Children's Favourites's a lot on Saturday mornings.

BlackForestReds

River of Time - Van Morrison
Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers
River - joni Mitchell
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Ferry Across the mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson
Ganges River Blues - Ry Cooder
Ol Man River - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Travelling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson

mistrollingin

Valley Floyd Road

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: mistrollingin[/cite]Valley Floyd Road

disappointed. Was expecting the usual great list of obscure (to me ) soul tunes. : - (

mistrollingin

groveling apologies Sir Irving, all the good ones already gone. I'll go down into the Soul Cellar later and see what I can find.

RalphMilnesgut

Black River - Paul Weller
Tales From The Riverbank - The Jam

Alex Wright

the banks of the ohio - olivia newton-john
blue danube waltz - strauss
the song of the volga boatmen
and of course......

the return of the magnificent severn - the clash
eye of the tiber (il rockys theme)- survivor

iainment

Banks of the Nile - Fotheringay

Mark Curtis

LOL @ Alex

March51

'Ouse sorry now' ; Connie Francis

'Ouse That Girl' : Eurythmics.

Tyne is on my side' : Stones

Mark Curtis

Do any songs by Bill Wrivers count???