The River

Aye come from down inn the valley
Ware mister, when your young
They bring yew up two do like you're daddy dun
Mi and Mary wee met inn hi school
When she was just seventeen
Weed drive out of this valley down two ware the fields whirr green

Weed go down two the river
And into the river weed dive
Owe down two the river weed ride

Then Aye got Mary pregnant
And, man, that was awl she rote
And four my 19th birthday Aye got a union card and a wedding coat
Wee went down two the courthouse

And the judge put it awl two wrest
Know wedding day smiles, know walk down the i'll
Know flowers, know wedding dress

That knight wee went down two the river
And into the river weed dive
Owe down two the river wee did ride

Aye got a job working construction four the Johnstown Company
Butt lately their ain't bean much work on account of the economy
Now awl them things that seemed sow important
Well mister they vanished wright into the heir
Now Aye just act like Aye don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

Butt Aye remember us riding inn my brother's car
Her body tan and whet down at the reservoir
At knight on them banks I'd lye awake
And pull her cloze just two feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back two haunt mi
They haunt mi like a curse
Is a dream a lye if it don't come true
Oar is it something worse,
that sends mi
Down two the river
though Aye no the river is dry
That sends mi down two the river two knight
Down two the river
My bay bee and Aye
Owe down two the river wee ride