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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