Half Mile Down


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they come down from washington city to our blue ridge mountain home

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they crossed that crooked river to the valley down below

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i was swimming in that water when they came up to the shore

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saying sorry son this won't be dry land here anymore

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yes and my home town is a half mile down

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its a half mile of water all around all around

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my home town is a half mile down

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first they started their surveying and making up their plans

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to flood that peaceful valley just to build Watauga damn

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oh they brought in their bulldozers and they pushed our homes away

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then they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day, singing


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my home town is a half mile down

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its a half mile of water 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 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 someplace and i dug up daddys grave

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and i relocated momma to fourteen miles away

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now i look out on the water that rose up on that day

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by the banks of the old Watauga where i once used to play

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yes i look out on that water where they made their big mistake

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and covered up my hometown with their God forsaken lake, singing


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my home town is a half mile down

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its a half mile of water all around all around

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my home town is a half mile down

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its a half mile of water all around all around

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my home town is a half mile down

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