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Nishnabotna is a Native American word, which means
"Deep enough to float a canoe in". |
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One time time when I 'as growin' up, it 'as when I 'as a kid
There 'as nothin' to do at home so I called up on a friend An' said let's pack us a box lunch, an' go down to the Nishnabotna An' go swimmin', an' maybe look fer some toads My friend said he thought that 'as a good idea Cause he didn't have nothin' to do either, an' he 'as outta toads So we packed up our box lunches an' we started outta walkin' An' we come to a big iron bridge which 'as five miles from town Where we ob-served a big sign which sez West Nishnabotna I sez this here's the place, an' a now if we can just find some toads An' go fer a good swim, we can have fun all day doin' nothin' Just loafin' around in the crick We jumped into that dirty water an' I thought we might be able to swim in it But we quickly discovered that we could not even begin to dog paddle in it Be... Because right where we was The Nishnabotna 'as only four an' a half inches deep So we wound up crawlin' along on all fours in it Through the mud, an' beer cans, an' yucky things, an' old pieces of cars We went passed a bunch of fenders an' a couple of Plymouth hubcaps An' we came to place where we thought there might be some toads When we 'as surprised by a farmer who told us to git on outta there An' to never come back, or he'd call up the Sheriff An have us put into jail fer the rest of our natural born lives With nothin' to eat but bread an' water, so we'd starve But time passes by real quickly when yer havin' fun So we ran through the fenders an' the mud to the bridge again But when we got back there we sadly discovered that the sun had been out all day An' our backs 'as all blistered so bad We had to lay flat on our bellies fer two weeks in bed Which made us sick to our stomachs, an' we didn't care about nothin' anymore It just ain't to good fer yer livers, to go swimmin' in that river You can get cut up pretty bad in there, an' there to many toads There's nothin' but... There's nothin' but mud in there An' there's all kinds of crud, an' it's layin' all over the place so ya better watch out If you wanna git sick, just go a crawlin' around in that crick Cause there's a whole lotta bad things that can happen to you No it ain't... No it aint good fer yer liver to hunt toads in that river The West Nishnabotny, the crick of my childhood |
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