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They come down from |
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Washington |
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City To our |
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Blue Ridge |
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Mountain home |
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And across that crooked river |
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To the valley down below |
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I was swimmin' in that water |
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When they came up to the shore |
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Sayin' sorry son this won't be |
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Dry land here anymore [Chorus:] |
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Yes and my home town |
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Is a half mile down |
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It's a half mile o' water |
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All around, all around |
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My home town is a half mile down |
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First they started their surveyin' |
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And makin' up their plans |
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To flood that peaceful valley |
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Just to build |
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Watauga dam |
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Oh they brought in their bulldozers |
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And pushed our homes away |
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And they handed me a shovel |
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And sixty cents a day [Chorus:] |
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Singin' my home town |
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Is a half mile down |
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It's a half mile o' water |
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All around, all around |
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My home town is a half mile down |
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So they stripped out all the timber |
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And they leveled all the land |
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And they drilled and dynamited 'til they blew the mountains in |
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I tore down my old homeplace |
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And I dug up |
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Daddy's grave |
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And I relocated |
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Momma to 14 miles away |
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Now I look down on the water |
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That rose up on that day |
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By the banks of the old |
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Watauga Where |
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I once used to play |
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Yes I look out on that water |
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Where they made their big mistake |
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And covered up our hometown 'neath the godforsaken lake [Chorus:] |
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Singin' my home town |
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Is a half mile down |
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It's a half mile of water |
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All around, all around |
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My home town |
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Is a half mile down |
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It's a half mile of water |
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All around, all around |
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My home town is a half mile down |