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They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice. |
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Now we got more electricity than we canever use. |
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They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out, but they |
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got paid so there ain't nothin' else to think about. |
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Some of them made their living cutting the timber down, snaking it one log at |
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a time up the hill and into town. T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast. |
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Lots of men and machinary, build a dam and drown the rest. |
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Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, bought fifteen acres when he |
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got back home from overseas. Fifteen rocky acres, figured noone else would |
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want, till all that backed up water had to have some place to go. |
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Uncle Frank couldn't read or write. Never held down a job, or needed one in |
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his life. They assured him there'd be work for him in town building cars. It's |
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already going down. |
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The cars never came to town and the roads never got built and the price of all |
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that power kept on going straight uphill. The banks around the hollow sold for |
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lake-front property where Doctors, Lawyers, and Musicians teach their kids to waterski. |
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Uncle Frank couldn't read or write so there was no note or letter found where he died. |
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Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it's side |