Junior Brother - Brown River lyrics

I dug out my final coppers
Like a rat scavenges corpses
To throw down the wishing well
To the dank bottom it fell
I cannot recollect what my mind
Was perched or standing upon
But some thing squeezed through my lips
Letters I could not resist

O am I such a lowly hand
To, in the rain, have horses stand
The breeze brought with it heather scent
The brown river flows o'er my head
Brown river flow over my head

(The) bumblebees are losing their
Tails and scatter quickly 'fore their nights
Have them sleep upon thе waves
Have them sleep in circlеs
(And) her chambers are soft and warm
And I will see them f'revermore
In a shade of blurry brown
In a leg-limbed brevity

And now the limp clouds turn away
Here I stand, I am not afraid
Just as the prophecies said
The brown river flows o'er my head
Brown river flow over my head