"Old Rivers" is a country music song written by Cliff Crofford which tells the story of a man recalling a childhood friendship with an elderly farmer.
The protagonist, whose family is very poor, recalls how Old Rivers used a mule-drawn plow to cultivate fields in the hot sun.
The place is not specifically named, but it can be inferred through the lyrics — "Walk up there among them clouds/Where the cotton's high and the corn's a-growin'/And there ain't no fields to plow" — that Old Rivers was speaking of Heaven.
Years later, the young boy is now an adult and, although having moved away from his dirt-poor farming community, is now a farmer himself and is plowing his own field.
He talks about a letter he received from his family back home, by which he learns from his mother that, among other things, Old Rivers has died.