The title song of Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album "The River" contains several phrases that allude to earlier songs. The opening line, "I come from down in the valley", takes up the title of a folk song also known as "Birmingham Jail", which I know from a version by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on their album "Shady Grove" (released in 1996 after Garcia's death in 1995). Springsteen's chorus phrase, "we'd go down to the river", takes up the title of another folk song, "Down to [or 'in'] the River to Pray", which was performed by Alison Krauss on the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers' 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 17 May 2025)