The Infamous Stringdusters - 1901: A Canyon Odyssey lyrics

1901 There beneath the August sun A daring survey undertaken on the fly Colorado would request Divert the river water west For The Uncompahgre Valley was too dry There'd been one attempt before And they needed to know more Than what Bryant saw from base camps on the rim When the challenge whet their thirst Two men planned to be the first To take the canyon floor route cut from deep within There's only one way the water flows Through a pa**age no one knows Heading down the Canyon Black They could never turn their back Staring down the Barrel of the Gunnison The Journey started as they planned With support from a third man Who hiked the the old trail high above the river's hood 'til they came upon a Narrow At the jaws of the Falls of Sorrow With one way out, they took the only way they could Diving deep into the churn Maybe never to return The pair could only hope to breathe the air again The angry river turned and tossed And the two might have been lost Deep below the surface of the Gunnison There's only one way the water flows Through a pa**age no one knows Heading down the Canyon Black They could never turn their back Staring down the Barrel of the Gunnison Gunnison! Now the story has been told And while the river still runs cold The water gets to where it once had never been As for whether they escaped They made it out just bruised and scraped The two men never would forget the Gunnison There's only one way the water flows Through a pa**age no one knows Heading down the Canyon Black They could never turn their back Staring down the Barrel of the Gunnison