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作曲 : Charles Wesley Godwin |
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In the Spring of 1949 |
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That’s when I crossed the county line |
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It’s there I saw in Seneca Creek |
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A girl named Ruth who washed her feet |
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I told her my name was RC Farris |
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That I’d marry her with half a karat |
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She said "I do, but no stone can reach |
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"The prettiest shine of this here creek" |
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The mud was deep and the roads were wide |
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We’d retreat and then re-take the lines |
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Korean winters had torn me down |
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And killed all the boys from my hometown |
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But I’m coming home, Ruth, my dear |
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I got money in my pocket, don’t you fear |
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We’ll build a life by Seneca Creek |
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You’ll have everything you’ll ever need |
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Let’s build a home by Seneca Creek |
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And raise ourselves a family |
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I’ll work on the farm, you work the store |
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We’ll have everything we ever hoped for |
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With the top of a mountain above our heads |
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed |
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Seneca Creek |
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And sure enough, the hard times came |
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You loved yours, I did the same |
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But we made it through the winter’s cold |
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And many summers young and old |
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In ’85 the creek did rise |
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But it only took the other side |
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It took Gandee, North Fork, and South Branch too |
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The house still stood that I built for you |
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In ’94 when you got sick |
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We’d make up trips for the hell of it |
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Take my hand, Ruth, my dear |
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I’ll take you back to any year |
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And now you lie on the hill up high |
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Right beneath the mountain sky |
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Seneca Creek sings below |
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Atop the tree sits a lonely crow |
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We built a home by Seneca Creek |
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And raised ourselves a family |
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I worked on the farm, you worked the store |
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We had everything we'd ever hoped for |
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With the top of a mountain above our heads |
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed |
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Seneca Creek |
