The River

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I come from down in the valley
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Where mister, when you're young
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  They bring you up to
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do like your daddy done
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Me and Mary we met in high school
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When she was just seventeen
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We'd drive out of this valley down
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to where the fields were green


[Chorus]
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  We'd go down to the river
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And into the river we'd dive
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  Oh down to the river
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we’d ride


[Verse]
     Am                C  
  Then I got Mary pregnant
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And man, that was all she wrote
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  And for my 19th birthday I got
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a union card and a wedding coat
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We went down to the courthouse
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And the judge put it all to rest
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No wedding day smiles,

no walk down the aisle
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No flowers, no wedding dress


[Chorus]
                   
  That night we went
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down to the river
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And into the river we'd dive
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Oh down to the river we did ride


[Solo]
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[Verse]
   Am                     C      
  I got a job working construction
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for the Johnstown Company
     Am                      C   
  But lately there ain't been much
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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
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right into the air
           Dm  
Now I just act like

I don't remember
     C                    F
Mary acts like she don't care


[Verse]
         Am              
  But I remember us riding
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in my brother's car
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  Her body tan and wet
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down at the reservoir
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  At night on them
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banks I'd lie awake
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  And pull her close just to
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feel each breath she'd take
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Now those memories

come back to haunt me
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They haunt me like a curse
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Is a dream a lie

if it don't come true
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Or is it something worse


[Chorus]
               Am          F
That sends me down to the river
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Though I know the river is dry
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  That sends me down
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to the river tonight
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Down to the river my baby and I
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Oh down to the river we ride


[Outro]
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