"The River" – Bruce Springsteen Now I just act like I don't _______

Mary acts like she don't care

I come from down in the ______

where mister when you're young But I remember us riding in my brother's car

They bring you up to do like your daddy done Her body tan and wet down at the _______

Me and Mary we met in _________ At night on them banks I'd lie awake

when she was just seventeen And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd
take
We'd ride out of this valley down to where the
fields were green Now those _______ come back to haunt me

they haunt me like a curse

We'd go down to the _____ Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

And into the river we'd dive Or is it something worse

Oh down to the river we'd ride that sends me down to the river

though I know the river is _______

Then I got Mary _____ That sends me down to the river tonight

and man that was all she wrote Down to the river

And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card my baby and I

and a _____ coat
Oh down to the river we ride
We went down to the courthouse

and the ______ put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

Insert the following words:
No _____ no wedding dress
- wedding
- pregnant
- memories
That night we went down to the river
- dry
And into the river we'd dive - river
- remember
Oh down to the river we did ride - Johnstown
- high school
- vanished
I got a job working construction for the ________ - valley
Company - economy
But lately there ain't been much work on account - reservoir
of the ________ - judge
- flowers
Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they ________ right into the air