Friday, June 6, 2008

Riparian Girl

A great song parody borrowed from another blogger:

http://www.greatlakeslaw.org/blog/2008/05/sorry-madonna-b.html


Riparian Girl
By Laura Colangelo (and Madonna)

Some folks want to go out West and
start to use a stream,
but even "beneficial use" won't
guarantee their dream.

They can beg and they can plead and
they can try to fight.
But laws there say the first appropri-
ator has the rights!

I'd rather be living in a riparian world
'cause I am a riparian girl!
You know I'm happy living in a riparian world
and I am a riparian girl.

In the East it's fair and not so
hard to understand:
I can use the water if I
own adjacent land.

Some build docks, some water crops but
these things are ok.
Just don't alter the natural state
of the waterway!

It's so great to be living in a riparian world,
and I am a riparian girl.
You know that we are living in a riparian world
and I am a riparian girl.

Suits may come and suits may go
and that's all right you see.
If my use is reasonable, they can't
take my stream from me!

Oh boy, do I like living in a riparian world
'cause I am a riparian girl.
You know that we are living in a riparian world
and I am a riparian girl.

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