Luyện nghe bài hát The River

I from down in the valley
Where when you're young
They bring you up to do like your done
Me and Mary we met in school
When she was seventeen
We'd ride out of valley down to where the fields were green
We'd go to the river
And into the river dive
Oh down to the river ride

Then I got pregnant
And man was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union and a wedding coat
We went down to the
And the judge put it all to
No wedding day no walk down the aisle
No no wedding dress

That night we went to the river
And into the river we'd
Oh down to the we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Company
But lately there been much work on account of the economy
Now all things that seemed so important
Well mister vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't
Mary like she don't care

But I remember us in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet at the reservoir
At on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath take
Now those come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a
Is a dream a lie if it don't come
Or is it something
That sends me to the river
I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the tonight
to the river
My and I
Oh down to the river we