Half Mile Down Chords
Half Mile Down by Old Crow Medicine Show is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, G, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D C G
G C G
They come down from Washington city to our blue ridge mountain home
D C G
And they crossed that crooked river to the valley down below
G C G
I was swimming in that water when they came up to the shore
D C G
Saying sorry son this won't be dry land here anymore
D C G
Yes and my home town is a half mile down
C G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D C G
My home town is a half mile down
G C G
First they started their surveying and making up their plans
D C G
To flood that peaceful valley just to build Watogga dam
G C G
Well they brought in their bulldozers and pushed our homes away
D C G
And they handed me a shovel and sixty cents a day
D C G
Singing my home town is a half mile down
C G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D C G
My home town is a half mile down
D C G
So they stripped out all the timber and they leveled all the land
D C G
And they drilled and dynamited til they blew the mountains in
Em Am
I tore down my old home place and I dug up daddy's grave
C D
And I relocated mama to fourteen miles away
G C G
Now I look out on the water that rose upon that day
D C G
By the banks of the old Wattoga where I once used to play
G C G
Yes I look out on that water where they made their big mistake
D C G
And covered up our hometown 'neath that god forsaken lake
D C G
Singing my hometown is a half mile down
C G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D C G
My home town is a half mile down
C G
Its a half mile of water all around all around
D C G
My home town is a half mile down