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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's also a John Farnham song

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh fuck! I didn't see this before I commented the lyrics 🤣🤣 that's so classic.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Close. There are two potentially relevant Farnam songs that may have been conflated in this discourse. One is That’s Freedom, which includes the lines "From the mountain to the valley / From the ocean to the alley / From the highway to the river". And the other is Two Strong Hearts, which repeatedly uses the line "Reaching out forever like a river to the sea". Neither quite uses "from the river to the sea", but together they give the same sort of impression.

[–] cdzero@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

You're the voice we needed on this.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 6 points 13 hours ago

I didn't expect John Farnham scholarship as part of this topic, but I'm into it.