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Copyright 1996 Larry Ulmer & Paul Roberts JR, BISHOP'S DREAM GATHER ROUND ME PEOPLE A STORY I WILL TELL ABOUT A MAN NAMED BISHOP AND THE BOAT THAT HE WOULD BUILD HE STARTED IN ABUILDING IT IN NINETEEN EIGHTY SIX AND HE SAID THAT WHEN HE GOT HER DONE HE’D TAKE A LITTLE TRIP HE SAILED HER OUT OF ST CHARLES BOUND UPRIVER FOR ST JOE HE TURNED TO THE CREW AND SAID WE’VE GOT AWAYS TO GO PAST WASHINGTON AND MARTHASVILLE NEW HAVENS BY THE WAY THEY TIED HER UP AT HERMANN ON MEMORIAL DAY JEFF CITY WAS THE NEXT STOP ON THEIR RIVER TRIP A CROWD WAS ON THE RIVER BANK TO GAZE UPON THIS SHIP FOR A FIFTY FIVE FOOT KEELBOAT YOU WON’T SEE EVERY DAY THEY TOOK THEIR PLACE IN HISTORY AND THEN THEY SAILED AWAY UPRIVER THEY MADE HARTSBURG THEN LUPUS THE NEXT DAY ROCHEPORT,THEN BOONVILLE WOULD LIE ALONG THE WAY THEY’D SAIL HER INTO GLASGOW BRUNSWICK AND MIAMI THEN LEXINGTON AND FORT OSAGE AND THEN INTO K.C. THEN THEY’LL HEAD ON UP TO ATCHISON THEN ON TO OLD ST JOE THE TRIP THAT LEWIS AND CLARK TOOK TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO THE DREAM THAT MR BISHOP HAD IS THERE FOR YOU TO SEE FOR THE THINGS YOU SEE TODAY WILL BE TOMORROW S HISTORY |
Larry Ulmer-Mrs Bishop & Glen-Wayne Crane-Paul Roberts Presentation of Bishop's Dream at Brunswick, Mo. 1996 Vocal & Keyboard by Larry Ulmer Guitar by Mike Michael
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