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Roll Me Through The Rushes

This version of Roll Me Through The Rushes was released by Chaka Khan in 1978.

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Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Roll me through the rushes just like Moses

Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Guide me to the new woman who waits
Current, leave me on the banks
By the cottage
Wher we will dine with silver cups
And golden plates

Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Roll me through the rushes just like Moses

I’ve prepared for my last journey
You know I’ve worked all my life
To make this basket strong
But a woman alone on a river
She can’t stay in the water too long

I’ve been chilled, I’ve lost my will
And I’ve stayed away from rivers
Much too long
I really must stay in this dirty dirty city
Till I found out that my strength was gone

Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Roll me through the rushes just like Moses
Just like Moses

Make my journey, make it short in space
Let me lose this hardness that I got now, Lord
Water, wash away all traces of hate
I will do what you say
If you just show me how, river

Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Roll me through the rushes just like Moses
Roll me through the rushes like Moses
Roll me through the rushes
Just like Moses on the Nile

River, river (sail)
River, river (sail)
River, river (sail)
River, river (sail)

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About Lyrics and Roll Me Through The Rushes by Chaka Khan

The lyrics to Roll Me Through The Rushes are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chaka Khan used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Roll Me Through The Rushes have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chaka Khan 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 Roll Me Through The Rushes by Chaka Khan. 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 Roll Me Through The Rushes" means the words set to the music of Roll Me Through The Rushes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chaka Khan. 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 Roll Me Through The Rushes and the lyrics to Roll Me Through The Rushes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chaka Khan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Roll Me Through The Rushes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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