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Water Water Everywhere

from Salt For Silver by Bert Lee

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Our old Italian neighborhood
has turned Chinese maybe for good
water water everywhere

the ghetto has been gentrified
the first folk have been pushed aside
doesn’t matter if it’s fair

it’s the same thing everywhere

the Indians who once lived here
made their trade in hunting deer
water water everywhere

they made a bargain with the Dutch
that really didn’t really leave them much
but the Dutchmen didn’t care

water water everywhere

the hippies have all moved upstate
the hipsters came to take their place
maybe the only difference is the hair

the little shops you could afford
to shop in now they all are boarded
but the building owners they don’t care

it’s the same thing everywhere.

water goes just where it will
You know it always flows downhill
water flowing everywhere
who are you and I to kid
it just does what it always did
it just goes where it’s meant too be
flowing till it finds the sea
water water everywhere

The music clubs have all shut down
now New York is a rich man’s town
money money everywhere

the only music that remains
is while your waiting for the trains
and you might tip them if you care

music music in there air

the money just goes where it must
it’s all about the boom or bust
doesn’t matter if it’s fair
who are you and I to kid
it settles for the lowest bid
the bottom line is where it goes
that’s the way the money flows
doesn’t matter if it’s fair
money money money everywhere

In my new Chinese neighborhood
the people that I meet are good
it’s the same thing everywhere

No matter where they came from friend
they’re only people in the end
it’s not their fault they had to settle there

people people everywhere
people trying just to be
everywhere like you and me
like the water to the sea
going where their meant to be
water water everywhere.

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from Salt For Silver, released February 10, 2020

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Bert Lee Brooklyn, New York

Bert Lee has been writing songs since the mid 1960's, and because of just dumb great luck has had the opportunity to be mentored by a bunch of great composers.

Classical, folk, country, swing, rock, electronic and downright experimental music has been flowing out of him for decades.

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