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The Warta (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvaɾta] German: Warthe; Latin: Varta) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometres (502 mi) it is the country's third longest river. The Warta has a basin area of 54,529 square kilometers, and it is navigable from Kostrzyn nad Odrą to Konin, approximately half of its length. It is connected to the Vistula by the river Noteć and the Bydgoszcz Canal (Kanał Bydgoski) near Bydgoszcz.
It rises in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland at Kromołów in Zawiercie, Silesian Voivodeship, flows through Łódź Land, Greater Poland and Lubusz Land, where it empties into the Oder near Kostrzyn at the border with Germany.
The Greater Polish Warta river basin was the original Poland —it is said that the Polans (Polish: Polanie), a West Slavic tribe, inhabited the Warta river basin from the 8th century. The river is also mentioned in the second stanza of the Mazurek Dąbrowskiego Polish national anthem.
Baby , no matter what love's got
to offer
I throw myself down
I'mat your feet
I taste your lips
Of soft deceit
As my retreat
Baby no matter what they say
about us
I long to go down your river wild
You're God's only child you see
The death of me
The body of you
Broken and still
I'll never know
How good it feels to finally forget you
And all that you are
I'll never know why
Our love has been scarred
Baby no matter what love's got
to offer
I'll throwmyself down
I'm at your feet
I taste your lips
Of soft deceit
As my retreat
The body of you
Broken and still
I'll never know
How good it feels to finally forget
And akll that you are
I'll never know why
Our love has been scarred
Baby no matter what they say
about us
I long to god down your river wild
Your God's only child you see
The death of me
Baby no matter what love's got to
offer
I know that it's lost and almost gone