Half Mile Down

Intro - D C G G C G they come down from washington city to our blue ridge mountain home D C G and they crossed that crooked river to the valley down below G C G i was swimming in that water when they came up to the shore D C G saying sorry son this won’t be dry land here anymore D C G yes and my home town is a half mile down C G its a half mile of water all around all around D C G my home town is a half mile down G C G first they started their surveying and making up their plans D C G to flood that peaceful valley just to build watogga dam G C G well they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away D C G and they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day D C G singing my home town is a half mile down C G its a half mile of water all around all around D C G my home town is a half mile down D C G so they stripped out all the timber and they leveled all the land D C G and they drilled and dynamited til they blew the mountains in Em Am i tore down my old home place and i dug up Daddy’s grave C D and i relocated mama to fourteen miles away G C G now i look out on the water that rose upon that day D C G by the banks of the old wattoga where i once used to play G C G yes i look out on that water where they made their big mistake D C G and covered up our hometown ’neath that god forsaken lake D C G singing my hometown is a half mile down C G its a half mile of water all around all around D C G my home town is a half mile down C G its a half mile of water all around all around D C G my home town is a half mile down