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I come from down the valley where Mister when you’re young
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They bring you up to do just like your daddy done
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Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen
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We’d ride out of the valley down to where the fields were green.

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We’d go down to the river and into the river we’d dive
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Oh down to the river we’d ride

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Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote
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And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
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We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest
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No wedding day smiles, no walk down the isles No flowers no wedding dress

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We’d go down to the river and into the river we’d dive
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Oh down to the river we’d ride
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I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
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But lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy
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Now all them things that seemed so important
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Well mister they vanished right into the air
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Now I act like I don’t remember and Mary acts like she don’t care
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But I remember us riding in my brothers car
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Her body tan and wet down by the reservoir
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At night on them banks I’d lie awake and pull her close just to feel
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every breath she’d take
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Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse
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Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true or is it something worse
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that sends me down….