Lyrics | All Across the U.S.A.
9. All Across the U.S.A.
Well, all across the U.S.A.
you can hear the people say,
“There’s so much algae in our lake.
When l swim l take a rake,
and when it stinks to high heaven,
it ain’t for heaven’s sake. PU.!!
Yeah, the fish swim belly up,
and if you put some
of that lake in your cup
and drank it,
you’d feel that way too.”
The farmers in the country,
homeowners in suburbs,
lose topsoil and fertilizer
in streams and over curbs.
Topsoil and fertilizer runs
into the river when the rains come.
The river then carries it’s heavy load
down to the lake
where the algae grows
and grows and grows and grows
But when there’s a swamp
that the river runs through,
there’s a lot that pot of peat can do.
Thick green growth is a fine strainer,
topsoil and fertilizer retainer.
The Mighty Magnificent Marsh.
It will take what the lake would think harsh.
It will hold on to what the river brings through
the mighty magnificent marsh.
When the building sides are gone
on lake shores and riverbanks,
they’ll drain a swamp and pull the plug
on an ancient nutrient tank.
Then the nutrients and the phosphates run…
Bill Brennan c 1983