From the recording All Aboard The Slo Train
Rick is one of our favorite contemporary bluegrass songorriters. He must have been feeling blue when he wrote this song about a displaced aquifer near his New Hampshire home.
Lyrics
In the White Mountains, Lost River flows.
Just where it runs to nobody knows.
It winds and turns, and disappears.
No one has found her all through the years.
All through the years.
Lost River, I'd like to know
All of the secrets your waters hold.
You're running wild and so free.
So lost and lonesome, just like me.
Oh, just like me.
When life has left me, oh so blue.
I wish that I could be like you.
Just flow along so carefree,
Wash all my sorrows out to the sea.
Out to the sea.
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Oh someday, River, your banks I'll find
'Til then you'll be here on my mind
I can almost hear your billows roar
And your cool waters soothe my soul
Lord, soothe my soul.
[chorus
Oh, just like me.
Oh, just like me.