Half Mile Down chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Chords with lyrics

Intro - D MajorD C majorC G+G

G+G                    C majorC       G+G
They come down from Washington city to our blue ridge mountain home
     D MajorD                 C majorC      G+G
And they crossed that crooked river to the valley down below
G+G                   C majorC       G+G
I was swimming in that water when they came up to the shore
    D MajorD              C majorC      G+G
Saying sorry son this won't be dry land here anymore

     D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
Yes and my home town is a half mile down
   C majorC                  G+G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
My home town is a half mile down

G+G                   C majorC         G+G
First they started their surveying and making up their plans
  D MajorD                  C majorC     G+G
To flood that peaceful valley just to build Watogga dam
G+G                    C majorC        G+G
Well they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away
     D MajorD            C majorC      G+G
And they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day

     D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
Singing my home town is a half mile down
   C majorC                  G+G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
My home town is a half mile down

    D MajorD                  C majorC        G+G
So they stripped out all the timber and they leveled all the land
     D MajorD               C majorC         G+G
And they drilled and dynamited til they blew the mountains in
 E minorEm                 A minorAm
I tore down my old home place and I dug up daddy's grave
   C majorC         D MajorD
And I relocated mama to fourteen miles away

  G+G              C majorC        G+G
Now I look out on the water that rose upon that day
    D MajorD               C majorC       G+G
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
  D MajorD                  C majorC      G+G
And covered up our hometown 'neath that god forsaken lake

    D MajorD        C majorC     G+G
Singing my hometown is a half mile down
   C majorC                  G+G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
My home town is a half mile down
   C majorC                  G+G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D MajorD         C majorC     G+G
My home town is a half mile down

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