Lyrics to
River Boat

This version of River Boat was released by Robert Palmer in 1975.

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Time dies tryin’ to fly by
Got a grain of love in my eye
And if I ??
Tryin’ to beat each other if they can

But that river boat keeps on chuggin’
While we keep on kissin’ and huggin’
We got love, we got love

Big wheels just keep on turnin’
And the fires just keep on burnin’
Love keeps on gowin’
Yeah river just keep on flowin’

Time dies tryin’ to fly by
Got a grain of love in my eye
Opportunity knockin’
Big boat keep on rockin’
That river boat keep on chuggin’ chuggin’
We just need to keep on kissin’ and huggin’

We got love, we got love, yes we do

Big boat just keep on chuggin’
We just keep on kissin’ and huggin’
We got love, yes we do, we got love
Don’t you know that river boat it keeps on chuggin’
We just need to keep on kissin and huggin’
We got love

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About Lyrics and River Boat by Robert Palmer

The lyrics to River Boat are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Robert Palmer used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to River Boat have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Robert Palmer and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to River Boat by Robert Palmer. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to River Boat" means the words set to the music of River Boat, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Robert Palmer. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to River Boat and the lyrics to River Boat are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Robert Palmer who came here looking just for the lyrics to River Boat, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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