Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

They come down from Washington city to our blue ridge mountain home

And they crossed that crooked river to the valley down below

I was swimming in that water when they came up to the shore

Saying sorry son this won't be dry land here anymore

Yes and my home town is a half mile down

Its a half mile of water all around all around

My home town is a half mile down

First they started their surveying and making up their plans

To flood that peaceful valley just to build Watogga dam

Well they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away

And they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day

Singing my home town is a half mile down

Its a half mile of water all around all around

My home town is a half mile down

So they stripped out all the timber and they leveled all the land

And they drilled and dynamited til they blew the mountains in

I tore down my old home place and I dug up daddy's grave

And I relocated mama to fourteen miles away

Now I look out on the water that rose upon that day

By the banks of the old Wattoga where I once used to play

Yes I look out on that water where they made their big mistake

And covered up our hometown 'neath that god forsaken lake

Singing my hometown is a half mile down

Its a half mile of water all around all around

My home town is a half mile down

Its a half mile of water all around all around

My home town is a half mile down