Half Mile Down Chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ They come down from Washington City [C] to our Blue [G] Ridge Mountain home, [D] and across that
crooked river [C] to the valley [G] down below.
_ I was swimming in that water [C] when they came up to the shore, [D] saying, sorry son, this won't
[C] be dry land [G] here anymore.
_ [D] Yes, and my hometown is a [G] half mile [C] down, it's a half mile of water all around, [G] all [D] around.
My home [C] is a half [G] mile [D] down.
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First they started their surveying [C] and making [G] up their plans [D] to flood that peaceful [A] valley
just to build [G] Watt's Hoggin Dam.
_ Oh, they brought an apple dozer [C] and pushed [G] our homes away, [D] and handed me a shovel [Am] and
sixty [G] cents a day.
[D] Singing, my hometown [C] is a half [G] mile down, [C] it's a half mile of water all around, [G] all around.
[D] My hometown [A] is a half [G] mile down.
So _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] they stripped out all the timber [A] and they [G] leveled all the land, [D] and they drilled and
dynamited [C] till they blew the [G] mountains in.
[Bm] I tore down my old home [A] place and I dug up daddy's grave, [C] and I relocated mama [D] some fourteen miles away.
_ _ [G] Now I look out on the water [C] that rose up [G] on that day, [D] by the banks of the old Watt's [A] Hogga,
where I [G] once used to play.
Yes, I look out on that water [C] where they made [G] that big mistake, and covered up our [A] hometown
made the godforsaken [G] lake.
[D] Singing, my hometown [C] is a [G] half mile down, [C] it's a half mile of water all [G] around, all around.
[D] My [G] hometown [C] is a half mile [C] down, it's a half mile of water all [G] around, all around.
[D]
My hometown [G] is a half mile down.
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