Ride Across the River

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“Ride Across the River”
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Brothers in Arms
Released 1985
Genre Rock
Length 06:58
Label Vertigo
Writer(s) Mark Knopfler

"Ride Across the River" is a 1985 song by the British rock band Dire Straits. It appeared on their best-selling album Brothers in Arms.

The song provided the most lucid part of the album's anti-war theme. Built on an off-beat rhythm, it uses immersive Latin American rain forest imagery, accompanied by pan flute and eerie background noises to allude to the elements of guerilla warfare.