I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
Flow of human blood
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it
I heard the singing of the Mississippi
when Abe Lincoln
Went down to New Orleans
, and I've seen its muddy
Bosom turn all golden in the sunset
Ancient, dusky rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
