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I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young.
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They bring you up to do 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 that 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 in the aisle, no flowers, no wedding dress.
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That night we went 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 the things that seemed so important, well mister they vanished right into the air.
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Now I just act like I don't remember, Mary acts like she don't care.
