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Georgia Rivers is proud to now present our original song "Okefenokee" with lyrics!

"Okefenokee" is our rally cry to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from a proposed titanium mine on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.

Okefenokee's Trail Ridge is the ancestral home of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe and holds significant historical, ecological, and cultural value for the people of Georgia.

Raise your voice to protect the Wild Heart of Georgia today and for future generations!

Lyrics:
A week in a canoe only a slice you’ll see
Paddling black water, gators eyeing me
Spanish moss in a tupelo tree
A bald cypress on wounded knee

Oh oh oh oh oh Okefenokee (2x)

I was raised running barefoot on this old Trail Ridge
Picking wild rice and fishing is how we lived
My family’s home is sacred, cypress paradise
Sometimes when I’m alone I scream into the night

Oh oh oh oh oh
Okefenokee (2x)

If they mine for titanium
They’ll steal the water from the swamp
Oh oh Georgia’s wild heart

The miners want to dig away the old beach sand
Where the water’s held back by Trail Ridge dam
Muscogee trail is sacred hunting grounds
Well the swampers still holler over Indian mounds

I can hear the sandhill cranes
I can see the stars

Oh oh oh oh oh
Okefenokee
Oh oh oh oh oh
Okefenokee
Okefenokee

If they mine for titanium
They’ll destroy the swamp
Oh oh
Georgia’s wild heart

This may be the last time we do not know
This may be the last time I don’t know
This may be the last time I don’t know
This may be the last time we do not know

This may be the last time we do not know (3x)

(while louder war cry stanzas below overlap)

Will we let them mine Trail Ridge?
Mining will destroy the swamp
Will we let them mine Trail Ridge?

Mining will destroy the swamp

Music Video:
Footage courtesy of Suzan Satterfield (with excerpts from Okefenokee Destiny), Joseph Kelly, and Virginie Kippelen

“Okefenokee” by Michelle Malone
● Writer/publisher -Rena Ann Peck, Jim Woodcox, Michelle Malone
● Credits produced by Michelle Malone
● Engineered by Jeff Bakos at Bakos Amp Works 11/29/23
● Doug Kees - guitar
● Mike Rizzi - drums, bgvs
● Brian Bisky - bass, bgvs
● Michelle Malone - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin
● Label entity name for (C) line SBS Records