Downstream - The Rainmakers

Me and Mark Twain were having us a ball

Telling each other lies floating down from Hannibal

With a bottle and a worm and a cane pole

We were fishing for secrets where the catfish crawl

And the Mississippi River’s flowing downstream

Meet the Gulf of Mexico somewhere downstream

Meet the Atlantic Ocean somewhere downstream

Gonna meet you in the water somewhere downstream

Well we picked up Harry Truman floating down from Independence

We said what about the war, he said good riddance

We said what about the bomb, are you sorry that you did it

He said pass me that bottle and mind your own business

We were rounding St. Louie and heading for the coast

When we picked up Chuck Berry in a little row boat

With one oar in the water and one in the air

A lightning rod for a white guitar

Then lightning struck once and lightning struck twice

And I said if there’s a God he sure ain’t nice

Chuck said God is an Indian giver

I don’t trust nothing but the Mississippi River