[00:00.000] 作曲 : Charles Wesley Godwin [00:19.592]In the Spring of 1949 [00:29.590]That’s when I crossed the county line [00:35.429]It’s there I saw in Seneca Creek [00:40.989]A girl named Ruth who washed her feet [00:46.329]I told her my name was RC Farris [00:51.567]That I’d marry her with half a karat [00:57.115]She said "I do, but no stone can reach [01:02.604]"The prettiest shine of this here creek" [01:11.544]The mud was deep and the roads were wide [01:16.531]We’d retreat and then re-take the lines [01:22.393]Korean winters had torn me down [01:27.323]And killed all the boys from my hometown [01:32.975]But I’m coming home, Ruth, my dear [01:38.019]I got money in my pocket, don’t you fear [01:43.888]We’ll build a life by Seneca Creek [01:48.882]You’ll have everything you’ll ever need [01:57.794]Let’s build a home by Seneca Creek [02:02.769]And raise ourselves a family [02:08.487]I’ll work on the farm, you work the store [02:13.452]We’ll have everything we ever hoped for [02:19.554]With the top of a mountain above our heads [02:24.415]And the roar of Seneca by the bed [02:29.638]Seneca Creek [02:34.791] [02:59.742]And sure enough, the hard times came [03:05.287]You loved yours, I did the same [03:10.602]But we made it through the winter’s cold [03:15.568]And many summers young and old [03:21.429]In ’85 the creek did rise [03:26.206]But it only took the other side [03:32.106]It took Gandee, North Fork, and South Branch too [03:37.326]The house still stood that I built for you [03:54.658]In ’94 when you got sick [03:59.774]We’d make up trips for the hell of it [04:05.354]Take my hand, Ruth, my dear [04:10.397]I’ll take you back to any year [04:16.232]And now you lie on the hill up high [04:21.555]Right beneath the mountain sky [04:27.460]Seneca Creek sings below [04:32.216]Atop the tree sits a lonely crow [04:40.996]We built a home by Seneca Creek [04:45.984]And raised ourselves a family [04:51.121]I worked on the farm, you worked the store [04:56.286]We had everything we'd ever hoped for [05:02.165]With the top of a mountain above our heads [05:07.210]And the roar of Seneca by the bed [05:12.571]Seneca Creek