[Intro]
(Harmonica)
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[Verse]
            
I come from do

             
wn in the vall

             
ey, where mist

              
er when you're

  
 young
            
They bring you

            
 up to do like

              
 your daddy do


ne
             
Me and Mary we

              
 met in high s

             
chool, when sh

             
e was just sev

   
enteen
            
We'd ride out 

              
of that valley

             
 down to where

              
 the fields we

    
re green
            
We'd go down t

             
o the river, A

             
nd into the ri

         
ver we'd dive
            
Oh down to the

            
 river we'd ri

      
de
            
I got Mary pre

             
gnant, And man

             
 that was all 

                                           
she wrote
                                                          
 
And for my nin

eteenth birthd

ay I got a uni

on card and a 

wedding coat
             
We went down t

              
o the courthou

             
se, And the ju

             
dge put it all

    
 to rest
                                                                    

No wedding day

 smiles no wal

k down in the 

aisle, No flow

ers no wedding

 dress
              
That night we 

            
went down to t

             
he river, And 

             
into the river

      
 we'd dive
            
Oh down to the

             
 river we did 

      
ride
            
I got a job wo

             
rking construc

              
tion for the J

        
ohnstown Compa

ny
            
But lately the

              
re ain't been 

            
much work on a

              
ccount of the 

     
economy
     
Now all them t

hings that see

med so importa

nt
              
Well mister th

             
ey vanished ri

            
ght into the a


ir
            
Now I just act

              
 like I don't 

              
remember, Mary

             
 acts like she

       
 don't care
            
But I remember

              
 us riding in 

     
my brother's c

ar
             
Her body tan a

              
nd wet down at

      
 the reservoir
            
At night on th

              
em banks I'd l


ie awake
             
And pull her c

              
lose just to f

          
eel each breat

h she'd take
                                                           
 
Now those memo

ries come back

 to haunt me, 

They haunt me 

like a curse
            
Is a dream a l

              
ie if it don't

              
 come true, Or

             
 is it somethi

    
ng worse that 

sends me
           
Down to the ri

              
ver though I k

             
now the river 

   
is dry,
              
That sends me 

           
down to the ri

       
ver tonight
                                     
           
Down to the ri

ver, My baby a

nd I, Oh down 

the river we'd

 ride
                           
 
oh oh oh oh oh

 oh oh oh oh o

h oh oh oh oh 

oh