LYRICS: Cool Water

Album:

For LP Fans Only (FTD)

Lyrics / Music:

Bob Nolan, 1936

Catalog number:

506020 975117 2

Recording date:

December 21-31, 1958

Release date:

December 2018

Observation:

- Recording made at Grunewald Hotel, Bad Nauheim, Germany

- Originally released semi-officially on "Are You Lonesome Tonight? - The Uncut Bad Nauheim Tapes" (06/2018) and re-released on "Made in Germany - The Complete Private Recordings" (2019)

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LYRICS

All day I've faced a barren waste

Without the taste of water

Cool water

Old Dan and I with throats burned dry

And souls that cry for water

Cool, clear water

The nights are cool and I'm a fool

Each star's a pool of water

Cool, clear water

And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn

And carry on to water

Cool, clear water

The shadows sway and seem to say

"Tonight we pray for water, cool water"

Cool, clear water

And way up there He'll hear our prayer

And show us where there's water

Cool, clear water

"Keep a-movin', Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan

He's a devil, not a man

And he spreads the burnin' sand with water"

"Dan, can you see that big, green tree?

Where the water's runnin' free

And it's waitin' there for you and me?"

Water

Cool, clear water

Dan's feet are sore, he's yearnin' for

Just one thing more than water

Cool, clear water

Like me I guess he'd like to rest

Where there's no quest for water

Cool, clear water