Yellow River - Christie (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Yellow River (Christie, 1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-28. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Yellow River," written by Jeff Christie, was the only hit for the group hitting no. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1970 and remained on the chart for 23 weeks (Whitburn, 2013). In an interview with Song Writing Magazine, Christie recalled his writing of the song. “I was always fascinated with the American Civil War and when I heard Glen Campbell’s Galveston, written by Jimmy Webb, it lit the spark that inspired me to write my own Galveston. . . . The concept was loosely about a confederate soldier’s relief and feelings on surviving the civil war, going home and hoping to find everything as it was and still in its place and if ‘the girl that he knew’ had stayed true and remained faithful" (songwritingmagazine, Jun. 16, 2020).

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Lyrics:

So long boy you can take my place, got my papers I've got my pay
So pack my bags and I'll be on my way to yellow river

Put my guns down the war is won
Fill my glass high the time has come
I'm going back to the place that I love yellow river

Yellow river, yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow river, yellow river is in my blood, it's the place I love
Got no time for explanations, got no time to lose
Tomorrow night you'll find me
Sleeping underneath the moon at yellow river

Cannon fire lingers in my mind, I'm so glad that I'm still alive
And I've been gone for such a long time from yellow river

I remember the nights were cool I can still see the water pool
And I remember the girl that I knew from yellow river

Yellow river, yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow river, yellow river is in my blood it's the place I love
Got no time for explanations, got no time to lose
Tomorrow night you'll find me
Sleeping underneath the moon at yellow river

Yellow river, yellow river is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow river, yellow river is in my blood it's the place I love