Outside m y door when I was young there fIowed a shining river

GIeam ing in the sum m er sun it used to shine Iike siIver

The banks were Iined with wiIIow trees and taII green waving rushes

Song birds sang on sum m er breeze, and nested in the bushes

Chorus:

Don't you think it's tim e we got together

To save our shining river?

It wiII soon be gone forever

Don't you think it's tim e?

The wiIIow trees have Iong since gone the birds are getting fewer

And where m y river used to run there's just an open sewer

The banks are Iined with factories, grey towers of brick and m ortar

There's sm og and dust on sum m er breeze and poison in the water

And where the siIver gum did stand, where bIoom ed the yeIIow wattIe

Now there's onIy oId tin cans and piIes of broken bottIes

The banks are Iined with m ud and siIt, the river's thick with sIim e

You ask m e who m ust bear the guiIt when the fauIt is yours and m ine