The Mighty Raritan - The World/Inferno Friendship Society

I was brought up on the banks

Of the mighty Raritan

Canal and rail lines

Mudlarkers fighting high tide

With the fights and the foibles

Of children free-thinking

Listen to the grown-ups

Curse life and thinking

That the trains above crashing by

They are friends of mine

They’re all friends of mine

I got drunk on the banks

Of the mighty Raritan

I stole a rowboat and I

I ended up in Trenton

Where I was nurtured and perverted

By women free-thinking

And hoarse voices in love

With life singing

That all your life and mine

It’s not a lie, lie, lie

It’s not a lie, lie, lie

Beat up and broke again

Upon the mighty Raritan

Canal and rail lines and I’m

I’m fighting low tide

Well how much can you learn

By just hanging around

Enough to leave here

And I’ve found

That the trains above crashing by

They are friends of mine

They’re old friends of mine