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\nIf Savannah\u2019s river was whiskey and I a bottom diving duck,
\nI\u2019d have to ponder when I hit the bottom whether to come back up<\/p>\n
Author’s Note: We were out on Bull Street doing Taco Tuesday supper, sipping some hard cider margaritas, when I spied a tight formation flight of southern bound migrating birds’ honking approach their nightfall roosting marsh water accommodations. At the same time in the background, I heard the terms old duck and diving duck. As I sucked in some fresh oxygen on behalf of the passing feathered divers, I smiled at the disconnected dusk sky imagery and word thoughts. What follows is my brief attempt to connect them.<\/p>\n
-Marlow (most certainly not an odd duck . . . yet)<\/p>\n
17 November 2022<\/p>\n
Diving Duck<\/p>\n
My dream river\u2019s whiskey
\nAnd I\u2019m a diving duck
\nInto this river of whiskey
\nI\u2019d be an old diving duck
\nSwimming to the bottom, just to drink my way up<\/p>\n
If I was good old man
\nThe seas I\u2019d never have to roam
\nIf Savannah\u2019s river was a great one
\nI\u2019d never have to roam
\nI’d give up buying whiskey and I\u2019d always stay at home<\/p>\n
Rivers go to the ocean, ocean go to the sea
\nWhy Savannah\u2019s ain’t got good whiskey
\nA mystery to me
\nLife flows to the ocean, ocean go to the sea
\nThis duck\u2019s gotta dive, but whiskey\u2019s not gonna make a fool out of me<\/p>\n
\nIf Savannah\u2019s river was whiskey and I a bottom diving duck,
\nI\u2019d have to ponder when I hit the bottom whether to come back up<\/p>\n
Savannah\u2019s dawn sun always warms my back door
\nSun shines in my back door about every day
\nWhen the sky winds rise, blow any nat’ral blues away
\n(Yes they do)<\/p>\n
Savannah wraps its arms around me like a circle round the sun
\nIt loves its mamas and papas like its easy riders and sailors need done
\nWrap its arms around us like a circle round the sun
\nIt loves its mamas and papas like its easy riders and sailors need done
\n(Go on ahead and ride and sail)<\/p>\n
My dream river\u2019s whiskey
\nAnd I\u2019m a diving duck
\nInto this river of whiskey
\nI\u2019d be an old diving duck
\nSwimming to the bottom, just to drink my way up<\/p>\n
If I was good old man
\nThe seas I\u2019d never have to roam
\nIf Savannah\u2019s river was a great one
\nI\u2019d never have to roam
\nI’d give up buying whiskey and I would always stay at home<\/p>\n
Rivers go to the ocean, ocean go to the sea
\nWhy Savannah\u2019s ain’t got good whiskey
\nA mystery to me
\nLife flows to the ocean, ocean go to the sea
\nThis duck\u2019s gotta\u2019 dive, but whiskey\u2019s not gonna make a fool out of me<\/p>\n
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