My Dirty Stream (the Hudson River Song) Lyrics - Pete Seeger

sailing down my dirty stream 

still I love it and I'll keep the dream 

that some day, though maybe not this year 

my Hudson river, will once again run clear 

it starts high in the mountains of the north 

crystal clear and icy trickles forth 

with just a few floating wrappers of chewing gum 

dropped by some hikers to warn of things to come 

at glenns falls five thousand honest hands 

work at the consolidated paper plant 

five million gallons of waste a day 

why should we do it any other way 

down the valley one million toilet chains 

find my hudson so convenient a place to drain 

and each little city says 'who me, 

do you think that sewage plants come free' 

out in the ocean they say the water's clear 

but i, live right at beacon here 

halfway between the mountains and the sea 

tacking to and fro this thought returns to me 

sailing up my dirty stream 

still i love it and i'll dream 

that some day, though maybe not this year 

my hudson river and my country will run clear 

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