Текст песни: Ol' Man River + перевод

Here we all work on the Mississippi

Here we all work while the rich boys play

Getting no rest from the dawn till sunset

Getting no rest till the judgment day

You don’t look up, you don’t look down

You don’t dare make the rich boss frown

Bend your knees and bow your heads

And tote that barge until you’re dead

Let me go away from the Mississippi

Let me go away from the rich man’s

Show me that stream called the river of Jordan

That’s the old stream that I long to cross

Ol' Man River, that Ol' Man River

He don’t say nothing, but he must know something

Ol' Man River, he just keeps rolling along

He don’t plant taters and he don’t plant cotton

And then that planters are soon forgotten

But Ol' Man River, he just keeps rolling along

You know, you and me, sometimes we have to we have to sweat

Sweat and strain, our bodies all aching and wrecked with pain

Tote that barge, lift that bale, get a little drunk

And you land, you gotta land, yes you land in jail

I get weary, oh Lord and so sick of trying

I’m tired of living and 'fraid of dying

But Ol' Man River, he just keeps rolling a

Ol' Man River, he just keeps rolling along

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