Cleveland

A river got so polluted it burned...
Some 40 or more years ago I was in Cleveland and the Cyahoga River fire was big in the news so I wanted to just go see it while I was there. It was along the steel mill and oil refinery section and it is still in my mind... how ugly a river it was. Had to be the biggest pollution story of the century to that point. The rivers had killed almost all the fish in Lake Erie. Randy Newman wrote a song about the burning river"




There's a red moon rising
On the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's a red moon rising
ON the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

Cleveland city of light city of magic
Cleveland city of light you're calling me
Cleveland, even now I can remember
'Cause the Cuyahoga River
Goes smokin' through my dreams

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on
Now the Lord can make you tumble
And the Lord can make you turn
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can't make you burn

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on

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It has been cleaned up and lake Erie is pristine once again.