Cifras
Half Mile Down

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They come down from Washington city to our blue ridge mountain home
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And 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 Watogga dam
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Well they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away
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And they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day
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Singing 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 home place and I 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 rose upon that day
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By the banks of the old Wattoga 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 our hometown 'neath that god forsaken lake
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Singing my hometown 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