Teardrops and Water
1967 · Preview 1246 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Title
- Teardrops and Water
- Release
- Teardrops and Water / I Wonder Who's Holding Her
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Preview # 1246
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Paul Segura
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Teardrops and Water (Keith, Rodd) (Preview # 1246) Song-poem. 1967.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Teardrops and Water (Keith, Rodd) (Preview # 1246) Song-poem. 1967. Leans toward anti-war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Teardrops and Water" - Label: Preview # 1246 - Songwriter: Paul Segura - Traditional pop - Hollywood, California - Peace / anti-war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: There's a big, big river flowing deep and wide / With teardrops and water flowing side by side / Pretty little girls are crying, their tears fall in the stream / Every day the stream grows wider with each new broken dream / Why are the pretty girls crying, crying cause the boys are dying / Why are the boys all dying, I don't really know, do you / There's a big, big river flowing deep and wide / With teardrops and water flowing side by side / Pretty little girls sit waiting for boys who had to roam / Fighting for the the pride of country until death sends a letter home / Then to the river they wonder, crying for the boy out yonder / Why did he die they ponder, I don't really know do you
Notes
Song poem Preview Records Inc. #1246-A, Arthur Music, A.S.C.A.P.; "Teardrops and Water" (Paul Segura), 2:08, sung by Rodd Keith; blue-and-white label with spotlight and musical-note design. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]