The River

May 4, 2024 Leave a Comment

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Intro

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Am

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Verse 1

I

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come from down in the v

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alley

Where m

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ister, when you’re y

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oung

They br

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ing you up to d

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o

l

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ike your daddy d

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one

Me and M

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ary we met in high school

When sh

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e was just s

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evente

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en

We’d d

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rive out of this valley

Down to wh

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ere the fields were gre

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en

Chorus

We’d go d

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own to the r

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iver

And

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into the river we’d d

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ive

Oh, d

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own to the r

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iver we’d r

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ide

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Verse 2

Then

Em

I got Mary pregna

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nt

And

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man, that was all she w

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rote

And

Em

for my nineteenth b

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irthday

I got a union c

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ard and a wedding c

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oat

We w

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ent down to the courthouse

And the j

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udge put it

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all to r

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est

No w

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edding day smiles, no walk down the aisle

No fl

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owers, no wedding dr

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ess

Chorus

That night we went d

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own to the r

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iver

And

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into the river we’d d

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ive

Oh d

Em

own to the r

C

iver we did r

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ide

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Solo

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Verse 3

I

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got a job working const

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ruction

For the

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Johnstown

Compan

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y

But l

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ately there ain’t been m

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uch

work

On acc

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ount of the econom

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y

Now

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all them things that seemed so important

Well mister th

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ey vanished right

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into the air

Em

Now I just

Am

act like I don’t remember

Mary

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acts like she don’t c

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are

Bridge

But I rem

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ember us riding in my br

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other’s

car

Her body t

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an and wet, down at the r

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eservoir

At n

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ight on them banks I’d l

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ie

awake

And pull her cl

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ose just to feel each b

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reath she’d take

Now those m

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emories come back to haunt me

They h

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aunt me l

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ike a c

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urse

Is a dr

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eam a lie if it don’t come true

Or

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is it something w

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orse

Chorus

That sends me d

Em

own to the r

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iver

Though I kn

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ow the river is d

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ry

That sends me d

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own to the r

C

iver

ton

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ight

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D

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own to the r

C

iver

My b

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aby and

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I

Oh, d

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own to the r

C

iver we r

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ide

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Ooh…

Outro

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