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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Live at C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY - December 1975)
Bruce Springsteen
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I come from down in 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 drive out of this 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 nineteenth 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 Oh~down to the river we'd ride I got a job working constrction 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 that sends me down to the river tonight Down to the river My baby and I Oh down to~ the river we ride Woo...
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