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I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young
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They bring you up to do like your daddy done
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Me and Mary we met in high school, when she was just seventeen
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We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green
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We'd go down to the river, and into the river we'd dive
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Oh down to the river we'd ride
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Then I got Mary pregnant, and man that was all she wrote
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And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
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We went down to the courthouse, and the judge put it all to rest
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No wedding day smiles no walk down in the aisle, no flowers no wedding dress
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That night we went down to the river, and into the river we'd dive
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On down to the river we did ride
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I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
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But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
C
Now all them things that seemed so important
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Well mister they vanished right into the air
Am G C
Now I just act like I don't remember, Mary acts like she don't care
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But I remember us riding in my brother's car
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Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
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At night on them banks I'd lie awake
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And pull her close just to feel each other breath she'd take
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Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse
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Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse that sends me
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Down to the river though I know the river is dry
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That sends me down to the river tonight
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Down to the river, my baby and I, oh down the river we'd ride
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh
