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Bruce Springsteen – The River (Live) – 1980

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    I come from down in the valley where mister when you’re young
    They bring you up to do like your daddy done
    Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

    We’d ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

    We’d go down to the river
    And into the river we’d dive
    Oh down to the river we’d ride

    Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote
    And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
    We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest
    No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
    No flowers no wedding dress
    That night we went down to the river
    And into the river we’d dive
    On down to the river we did ride

    I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company

    But lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy
    Now all them things that seemed so important
    Well mister they vanished right into the air
    Now I just act like I don’t remember, Mary acts like she don’t care
    But I remember us riding in my brother’s car
    Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
    At night on them banks I’d lie awake
    And pull her close just to feel each breath she’d take
    Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse
    Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true
    Or is it something worse that sends me

    Down to the river though I know the river is dry

    Down to the river, my baby and I
    Oh down to the river we ride
    Down to the river, my baby and I
    Oh down to the river we ride