Hey there, Mr. Thoreau
Do you mind if I join you there in your boat?
For a spell with you on your pond I'd like to float
I wanna wake up
I wanna feel this life is enough
For me
Hey, look there
Here come some birch bark canoes
Now they're gone
Must just have been ghosts of a people I wish I knew

Say there, Samuel Clemens
Can I hitch a ride with you on your river raft
Life here on shore feels like it's cutting me in half
I wanna trip
Down the Mississip
And under the moonlight slip away
Hey wait a minute, wait a minute, look there,
here comes ol' Huckleberry Finn
Say hey, Huck, come on now, jump on in

(interlude)

Michael row your boat ashore, hallelujah...

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream...verily life is but a dream...

River, river carry me on...to the place where I come from...

The river is flowing, flowing and growing, the river is flowing, down to the sea...

(interlude)

Excuse me, fair Galadriel
They tell me that you're leaving on that ship across the sea
Sailing with you to Valinor I'd like to be
I know I'm a man
On Middle-earth I'm supposed to make my stand but I grieve
Hey wait, hey wait look, here comes Elrond and Gandalf too
(and the Ringbearers)
Without you what are we supposed to do?
Now you know, you know as well as I do that the wills of men are weak
And there's no way we can be entrusted to keep this peace
All right, I see you're really leaving, won't you please, won't you please
hear this final plea
Won't you please come back to aid us in our final need?