Multnomah was a band of Chinook Native American living on the Columbia River. The name is now used for a water fall and a county outside of Portland, OR. Multnomah county rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

Read more at https://www.portlandpf.org/land-acknowledgement

Thanks to Chelsey Llewallyn: the chorus is just right because of you. 

Note: I have deeply-loved family and friends in Walla Walla and this song is not a slight to them. Just an acknowledgement of my truth: I need to live amongst artists, in a diverse and people-minded city! 

Lyrics by Brittany Brook. 
v1
Soon as I hit Multnomah
soon as I’m following that river
west, westward bound

soon as the Dalles are far behind me
soon  as I'm taking that green exit
from the Cascades to the sound...

P
Gonna go on down
put my fists in the sand
Gonna find my ground

v2
Soon as I hit Multnomah
soon as that mount is in my mirror
and the windows are rollin' down

Soon as the lights ignite the freeway
soon as the silence makes a segue
to a symphony of sound...

Ch 
I’ll be alright
I’ll be alright
once I’m back in the city 

vamp

P
Gonna go on down

Gonna find my ground

v3
Soon as I hit Multnomah
that waterfall where my mama
took me as a kid

soon as this desert becomes forest
soon as this moment become memory
and we did what we did...  

Ch
I’ll be alright
I’ll be alright
once I’m back in the city

I’ll make my bones
I’ll find my home
once I'm back in the city

It’s been so long
I’ve almost gone
back in the city

oh! 

(a capella, percussion on guitar)
Come on, come on, 
Carry me, Columbia, 
carry me, carry me 
your way down 

Come on, come on, 
Carry me, Columbia, 
carry me, carry me 
your way down 

come on, come on
carry me, Columbia
carry me, carry me
your way down 

come on, come on
carry me, Columbia
come on, come on
carry me, Columbia

carry me, carry me
carry me, carry me 
carry me, carry me  
a new way down

Multnomah (back in the city)

Toast

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-driver-who-fatally-struck-tony-winners-daughter-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/03/06/southern-brooklyn-shaken-after-latest-pedestrian-death/

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