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. "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"
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 "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"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Song poem
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]