I litterally just looked up the lyrics just now and began to tear. All i could think of was my own daughter of 15 months. Got dayum.
Taking the lyric at face value; there's no implication that dad didn't jump in the water, only that he was ineffective and incapable of effecting Clementine's rescue. Could read it as survivor guilt.
Maybe. But I saw a video of some random White guy jumping in the water to rescue a drowning nigger and the nigger dragged them both under. I'd rather die drowning trying to save my own daughter, Clementine. Know what I mean?
And, as to jumping in to save my kid... Knowing the things I know: if they accidently go into cold, swift water; it might as well be going out of one of the observation windows on the CN Tower... my following after would just add another corpse to the tragedy. Reality gives no fucks for our feelings. Rivers have, historically, always been brutal eaters of souls.
Your words mean nothing.
You are, in fact, a cunt.
...if you were a man and your daughter fell into the river... (you would climb the CN Tower) ...ok. Fuck you. Never reply to me again.
I've been an EMT, Lifeguard, SCUBA Certified, Swift Water SAR. Swam, played Water Polo in school. Only an idiot jumps into moving water without gear and support. Doing so just adds work for the poor bastards doing recovery (the true R in SAR). Always wait for the nigger to go face down and still, then hook them with a pike pole from a boat or shore. Otherwise they will always grab at your face and drag you under with them. It's what they do, even when face down and still.
Dammit... I should have read this comment first before all the others.
I was SAR for 4 years in my youth. Did you learn how to "drown proof"?
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