One was Longfellow's poem Excelsior, which I loved and memorized for some odd reason when I was a kid in school. You can look it up if you've a mind to...but don't bother if you aren't into poetry.
The other was this song originally done so well by the late Sam Cooke. I loved it! Then I heard Tina Turner do it in concert in France a long time ago...anyway I found it again tonight by both of them and a few others. It's a grand song, but I remember saying when I saw Tina do it I was just floored at her powerful delivery. "I think she's the only woman who SHOULD sing it". Apologies to Aretha, but sister, I think Tina knows that river....just a little better.
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