Seneca Creek

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In the Spring of 1949
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That’s when I crossed the county 
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line
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It’s there I saw in Seneca Creek
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A girl named Ruth who washed her 
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feet
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I told her my name was RC Farris
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That I’d marry her with half a karat
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She said "I do, but no stone can 
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reach
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"The prettiest shine of this here 
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creek"


[Verse 2]
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The mud was deep and the roads 
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were wide
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We’d retreat and then re-take the 
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lines
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Korean winters had torn me down
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And killed all the boys from my 
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hometown
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But I’m coming home, Ruth, my dear
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I got money in my pocket, don’t you
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 fear
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We’ll build a life by Seneca Creek
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You’ll have everything you’ll ever 
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need


[Chorus 1]
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Let’s build a home by Seneca Creek
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And raise ourselves a family
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I’ll work on the farm, you work 
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the store
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We’ll have everything we ever 
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hoped for
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With the top of a mountain above 
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our heads
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed
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Seneca Creek


[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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And sure enough, the hard times came
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You loved yours, I did the same
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But we made it through the 
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winter’s cold
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And many summers young and old
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In ’85 the creek did rise
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But it only took the other side
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The Gandee, North Fork, and South 
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Branch too
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The house still stood that I built 
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for you


[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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In ’94 when you got sick
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We’d make up trips for the hell of 
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it
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Take my hand, Ruth, my dear
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I’ll take you back to any year
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And now you lie on the hill up high
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Right beneath the mountain sky
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Seneca Creek sings below
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Atop the tree sits a lonely crow


[Chorus 2]
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We built a home by Seneca Creek
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And raised ourselves a family
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I worked on the farm, you worked 
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the store
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We had everything we'd ever hoped 
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for
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With the top of a mountain above 
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our heads
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed
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Seneca Creek