Phonogram Copyright 2004 Blue Note / Capitol, a division of EMI Music France Lyrics and Music by J.J. Cale Notice: Copyright Disclaimer MiM does not own the copyright for this video. This is a publically released not-for-profit music video permitted under the "Fair Use" doctrine. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. MiM considers that this video is part of an on-going scholarship project which constitutes a critical commentary and which adds transformative content regarding unjust conditions and perceived causes of those injustices now existing on planet Earth. MiM also considers that any copyrighted lyrics quoted in this publically released not-for-profit music video are also part of the scholarship project and appear in context along with transformative commentary that provides analysis of the explicit and implicit content of the lyrics. Fair Use: a doctrine in United States copyright law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. -- David Brower It is our misfortune that many rivers in America are now very much like Cale's mythic Stone River. Water doesn't run in many of our rivers and streams year round, fish no longer swim in many of them, and more often than not the water in them is no longer fit to drink. Once mighty rivers like the Rio Grande and Colorado no longer regularly run to the sea all year round and there are few rivers that have been allowed to run clean and free. National Geographic reports that, "Because it is so heavily tapped for agriculture, industry, and municipal uses along its course, the Colorado River rarely reaches its delta and the Gulf of California. About one-tenth of the river's former flow now makes it to Mexico, but most of that is used for farming and cities south of the border." National Geographic also reports that, "Less than a fifth of the Rio Grande's historical flow now reaches the Gulf." and that, "For a few years in the early 2000s, the river failed to reach the coast entirely." The Columbia River is so choked with dams, it has become necessary to transport the salmon on their spawning runs upstream. The Salmon River, one of the tributaries of the Columbia, once had extensive runs of sockeye salmon, but the Sunbeam Dam nearly destroyed the run. According to Idaho Fish and Game, "Redfish Lake sockeye salmon were listed as endangered in November 1991 ..." and when I visited Redfish Lake in 1993, I was told that only five sockeye had made the 900 mile journey from the ocean to the lake. Yes, Stone River might be a simple song, but the words are profound, we have "bottled up and dammed it," we have "choked it up and jammed it," and too many have "stole it like a bandit." Our once beautiful streams, and places like Celilo Falls, a livlihood for people for thousands of years on the Columbia, have become just dreams. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. Man he done cut it off ... and moved it all around. There ain't no river runnin' ... no water can be found. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. Fish ain't swimmin' ... ain't no fish around no where. Fish ain't swimmin' ... ain't nobody seem to care. They bottled up and dammed it ... choked it up and jammed it. Killed the life around it ... and stole it like a bandit. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. What used to be a river ... now is just an empty site. Ain't no vegetation ... it's just an agitation it don't seem right. There ain't no trees a growin' ... no animals are showin'. What used to be a stream ... is now just a dream. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no where. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. Man he done cut it off ... and moved it all around. There ain't no river runnin' ... no water can be found. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. They bottled up and dammed it ... choked it up and jammed it. Killed the life around it ... and stole it like a bandit. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. There ain't no trees a growin' ... no animals are showin'. What used to be a stream ... is now just a dream. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no where. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no where. Stone river ... water ain't runnin' no more. John Weldon "J.J." Cale (December 5, 1938 -- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) (July 26, 2013 -- La Jolla, California) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ_Cale

• published: 15 Aug 2015
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