[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.60]How old was I when I first seen old Rivers [00:13.67]I can't remember when he weren't around [00:17.52]Well  that old fellow did a heap of work [00:21.30]Spent his whole life walking plowed ground [00:25.53]He had a one-room shack not far from us [00:28.82]And well  we was about as poor as him [00:33.81]He had one old mule he called Midnight [00:37.59]And I'd trailed along after them [00:41.69]He used to plow them rows straight and deep [00:45.75]And I'd come along near behind [00:49.62]A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet [00:53.85]Old Rivers was a friend of mine [00:57.86]That sun'd get high and that mule would work [01:01.86]Till old Rivers'd say  ''Whoa  '' [01:06.14]He'd wipe his brow  lean back on the reins [01:09.75]And talk about a place he was gonna go [01:13.11]Chorus: [01:13.64]He'd say  one of these days [01:15.44]I'm gonna climb that mountain [01:17.11]Walk up there amoung the clouds [01:21.74]Where the cotton's high [01:23.59]And the corn's a-growin' [01:25.60]And there ain't no fields to plow [01:38.10]I got a letter today from the folks back home and [01:41.91]They're all fine and crops is dry [01:46.27]Down at the end my mama said  ''Son [01:50.18]You know old Rivers died  '' [01:54.17]Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth [01:58.24]Trying to find me a little shade [02:02.18]With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see [02:05.84]That mule  old Rivers and me [02:08.94]Chorus: [02:09.89]Now  one of these days [02:12.08]I'm gonna climb that mountain [02:14.24]Walk up there amoung the clouds [02:18.13]Where the cotton's high [02:19.97]And the corn's a-growin' [02:22.09]And there ain't no fields to plow [02:25.78]With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see [02:31.60]That mule  old Rivers and me