Linda Perhacs Call of the River

From an amazing album recorded by mysterious Linda Perhacs in 1970. I d like to add a part of a great book from Herman Hesse, Siddhartha, written in 1927: I cannot tell you what the other thing is my friend. You will find out, perhaps you already know. I am not a learned man; I do not know how to talk or think. I only know how to listen and be devout; otherwise I have learned nothing. If I could talk and teach, I would perhaps be a teacher, but as it is I am only a ferryman and it is my task to take people across this river. To all of them the river has been nothing but a hinderance on their journey. They have travelled for money and business, to weddings and pilgrimages; the river has been in their way and the ferryman was there to take them quickly across the obstacle. However, amongst the thousands there have been a few, four or five, to whom the river was not an obstacle. They have heard it s voice and listened to it.