Half Mile Down

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They come down from Washington 
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city to our blue ridge mountain home
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And they crossed that crooked river
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 to the valley down below
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I was swimming in that water when 
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they came up to the shore
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Saying sorry son this won't be dry 
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land here anymore

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Yes and my home town is a half 
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mile down
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Its a half mile of water all around
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 all around
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My home town is a half mile down

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First they started their surveying
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 and making up their plans
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To flood that peaceful valley just 
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to build Watogga dam
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Well they brought in their 
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bulldozers and pushed our homes away
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And they handed me a shovel and 
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sixty cents a day

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Singing my home town is a half 
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mile down
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Its a half mile of water all around
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 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 
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they blew the mountains in
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I tore down my old home place and I
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 dug up daddy's grave
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And I relocated mama to fourteen 
miles away

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Now I look out on the water that 
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rose upon that day
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By the banks of the old Wattoga 
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where I once used to play
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Yes I look out on that water where
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 they made their big mistake
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And covered up our hometown 'neath 
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that god forsaken lake

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Singing my hometown is a half mile 
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down
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Its a half mile of water all around
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 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
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 all around
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My home town is a half mile down