River Afternoon was my first song written way back in 1978. I started my whitewater career in 1974 as one of 3 owners of Sundance Expeditions, a rafting and kayaking company on the beautiful Rogue River in southern Oregon. I left there in 1978 and I wanted to memorialize my time there in a song. One night jamming around with Steve Moddemeyer in Seattle I wrote the structure and Steve came up with some partial lyrics. That’s as far as it went until some pre-production work occurred with Grant Stott in 2002. Originally titled Rogue River Afternoon, I made it more generic and Jeff took it to it’s current form, beautifully reflecting my feelings about the care free life style of floating wild and scenic rivers.
River Afternoon
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Floating down this river on a summer day
Singing out this happy song
All the clouds have drifted out of sight
The sun is shining, wind is calm
Now we’re drifting
On this river afternoon
Oh lazy warm and gentile afternoon
The osprey soar above us
We drift below in graceful motion,
In harmony
Nothing matters, today we’re free
I’ll just keep on singing, this melody,
la, la, la, la, la,la
Now we’re drifting on this river afternoon
Oh oh oh, lazy warm and gentle afternoon
The osprey soar above us
We drift below to the ocean, to the sea
Nothing matters, today we’re free
I’ll just keep on singing, this melody
La, la, la, la, la la