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The River

from Land of Promise by Jacob Mau

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We’ll find that river boys and take it down to the South. We’ll bring our cannon boys and plant them at the river’s mouth, oh yes. We’ll get those savages to fight the Spaniards for us. We’ll find that river boys if it’s the last thing that I do.

LaSalle did reach the Gulf and claim the coastland for his king, after passing through Saint Joseph and down the banks of the Kankakee. In the Mississippi Delta he found himself a sandy grave. He made the history books, but his creditors never got paid.

We’ll dam that river boys at the town of Wilmington. We’ll take its water boys to fill the I&M, oh yes we will. Bring big machines my boys, and turn those acres into dollars, yes. Bring big machines my boys, we’ll straighten out that stream, oh yes we will.

So they drained all of the marshland and they harvested the trees. Sent the cash crops and the timber down the banks of the Kankakee. Where has the valley’s beauty gone? My children I can’t say. The good Lord will place it in your hands some day.

We’ll lay those tracks my boys right through the prairie grass. We’ll lay those tracks my boys right down to Decatur, yes we will. We’ll send steam engines down at 50 miles an hour. We’ll lay those tracks my boys, ain’t nobody gonna stop us.

But they never laid that line, the bridge pillars stand bare still today to the west of Warner Bridge between the banks of the Kankakee. The great fire of ‘71 may have burnt their company to the ground. We are not sure. Those men no longer are around.

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from Land of Promise, released July 4, 2013

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Jacob Mau Chicago, Illinois

Jacob Mau spins compelling stories of misfit people and misplaced landscapes oft overlooked by others, and ignored by history. As this year's winner of Chicago's longest-running open mic competition, hosted annually by Uncommon Ground, he is clearly a standout among the city's best singer-songwriters. Good things await this young musician."

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