Afternoon Matinee: Protest - Don't Go Near The Water

Performed by Johnny Cash

From the fountains in the mountains

Comes the water running cool and clear and blue

And it comes down from the hills

And it goes down to the towns and passes through

When it gets down to the cities

Then the water turns into a dirty gray

It's poisoned and polluted

By the people as it goes along its way

Don't go near the water children

See the fish all dead upon the shore

Don't go near the water

'Cause the water isn't water anymore

I took my boy fishin' to my old favorite fishin' hole

I had caught many a fish out of that deep clear water

From the time I was a boy like him

After we'd fished a few minutes

He said, "Did you get a bite yet daddy?"

I said, "I think I got a nibble son"

"Me too", he said

Then he said, "Daddy if we catch a fish can we eat him"

I said, "Well there was a time son

This water's bad now and I might not be safe to eat the fish

But there was a time"

There was a time the air was clean

And you could see forever 'cross the plains

The wind was sweet as honey

And no one had ever heard of acid rain

We're torturin' the earth

And pourin' every kind of evil in the sea

We violated nature

And our children have to pay the penalty

Don't go near the water children

See the fish all dead upon the shore

Don't go near the water

'Cause the water isn't water anymore

Don't go near the water children

See the fish all dead upon the shore

Don't go near the water

'Cause the water isn't water anymore

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