Where The Roanoke River Runs
© Travis Woodruff

(verse)
Standing down by the river bank
skippin rocks across the water
Thinkin bout when I was a boy catchin rock fish all day
in a boat just down from here and my daddy would say
So many things in this life are like this river
to find the good the hard must be faced
It’s like the rocks say to the water
run hard as you want but you can’t get away

(Chorus)
Run Roanoke River Run
you spill out your wisdom like a father to his son
For the natives of this land before me
to the ones that are to come that I’ll never live to see
From the Virginia Mountains to the Carolina coast
through the Potocasi Swamp and the land I love the most
It’s where I’m from
Where the Roanoke River Runs

(verse)
I remember ridin a raft down Great Falls
they say before they build the dam it would flood every fall
And when that rivers down the rapids will roll
that’s why the natives named it Roanoke for it’s unforgiving soul
Oh those beautiful lakes
Roanoke Rapids, Kerr or Gaston any or all of them I’ll take for
Catfish juggin or Rock fishin
all this thinking has got me wishin

(Chorus 2)
Run Roanoke River Run
you hold the memories for a father and his son
For the natives of this land before me
to the ones that are to come that I’ll never live to see
From the Virginia Mountains to the Carolina coast
through the Potocasi Swamp and the land I love the most
It’s where I’m from
Where the Roanoke River Runs