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I [em]come from down in the valley

Where mister when you're young

They [em]bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and Mary we met in high school

When she was just seven[em]teen

We'd [am]drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go [em]down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

Oh [em]down to the river we'd ride

Then [em]I got Mary pregnant

And man that was all she wrote

And [em]for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse

And the judge put it all to [em]rest

No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went [em]down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

Oh [em]down to the river we did ride

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I [em]got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company

But [em]lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the [em]air

Mary acts like she don't care

But I re[em]member us riding in my brother's car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At [em]night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me

They haunt me like a [em]curse

Or is it something worse,

That sends me [em]down to the river

Though I know the river is dry

That sends me [em]down to the river tonight

[em]Down to the river

My baby and I

Oh [em]down to the river we ride

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