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Slaid Cleaves
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There's an old dirt road, just off route nine
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Fades into the lake, at the low water line
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Sometimes I wander down that road alone
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Remembering the town, that I once called home
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I grew up in the valley, every neighbor a friend
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Until the modern world started creeping in
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One day came the lawyers, with cash in hand
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They swore that our village would light up the land
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The dusky waters move cold and slow
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And the ghosts of a village still wander below
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Homesteads of families and friends forever more
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Haunting the valley below this sparkling shore
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Surrounding the valley was a painted red line
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Drawn by company men like marking a crime
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A silent reminder that all inside it must go
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Or be lost to the rising dead river's flow
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Some folks too the money, started grinding gears
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While the rest of us held out, twenty odd years
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We watched our town, like a photograph fade
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As the company came, to take it all away
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They tore down the church, the schoolhouse burned
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They dug up the graves, the wheels of progress turned
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They got Dutchie's store, and Haven's pool hall
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When the dozers rolled, it shattered us all
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The dusky waters move cold and slow
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And the ghosts of a village still wander below
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Homesteads of families and friends forever more
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Haunting the valley below this sparkling shore
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Old May Savage stayed as long as she could
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Her house on the hill towered over the flood
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It rose up alone, in the dark of night
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Its face on the water, the cold moonlight
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I shake off the memories, on my lips a prayer
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Thanks for the grace, and the beauty down there
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And while the porch lights glow, all over the state
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There's nothing but darkness, under the lake
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The dusky waters move cold and slow
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And the ghosts of a village still wander below
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Homesteads of families and friends forever more
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Haunting the valley below this sparkling shore
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They haunt the valley below this sparkling shore
Below by Slaid Cleaves
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