Old Crow Medicine Show Lyrics
"Half Mile Down"

They come down from Washington city, to our Blue Ridge mountain home
And across that crooked river, to the valley down below
I was swimmin' in that water when they came up to the shore
Sayin' sorry son, this won't be, dry land here anymore

Yes and my home town is a half mile down
It's a half mile of water all around all around
My home town is a half mile down

First they started their surveyin' and makin' up their plans
to flood that peaceful valley, just to build Watauga Dam
Oh they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away
And they handed me a shovel, and sixty cents a day

Singin' my home town is a half mile down
It's 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, till 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 up on that day
By the banks of the old Watauga, 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 the Godforsaken lake

Singin' my home town is a half mile down
It's a half mile of water all around all around
My home town is a half mile down
It's a half mile of water all around all around
My home town is a half mile down.